PS5 controller board question
I've soldered about 30 ps5 controllers and only ever had issues on my first one and this last one.
I used liquid flux, no clean for all of them and today I switched to a paste: MG chemicals 8342 rosin flux paste.
I used a 14 pin adapter on my soldering station and first applied leaded solder to all pins like I always do., then I put the paste on and put the iron to it. Both sticks came out after about 10 seconds on 380c. Then I grabbed the new stick and pushed it in, worked..somewhat but you can see in the photos how its lopsided. I tried on the other side afterwards for the second stick and couldn't get them to line up correctly.
Long story short..the board has discolored. I don't think it was the temp, I didn’t have it any higher than I usually do. Sometimes I even go up to 400c. Could it have been the paste or did I burn the board?