ATI Powermodule 4 of 8 bulbs not working

Pisanoal · Sep 18, 2020

Alright, so I got the relay in yesterday and got it installed. Long story short, the light is working! The de-soldering of the old relay was super easy since there is a ton of space on the board and the terminals are quite large for solder through. (I don't have much PCB soldering experience at all). I used compressed air to blow the hot solder out of the terminals instead of sucking it out as I don't have any proper de-soldering tools. It was a little messy, but worked really well, again probably because there was so much room on the board and not a lot of components that could get messed up and shorted out by messy solder.

@ATI North America I put together a short PDF guide rather then trying to explain and post pictures on here.

piranhaman00 · Sep 18, 2020

Wow good for you man, I couldnt do that. And great guide, should help some people in the future.

Biglew11 · Sep 18, 2020

awesome great job, that sounded like it was the problem. nice write up as well.

Pisanoal · Sep 18, 2020

piranhaman00 said:
Wow good for you man, I couldnt do that. And great guide, should help some people in the future.

Thanks. It really wasn't hard! I have done a good bit of DIY, but I am NOT good at electrical stuff. I know literally just enough to be dangerous. I'm not very good at soldering either and this was a piece of cake. I really think that with a little guidance, just about anyone whose moderately handy could pull this off. With an expensive control box replacement ($400), it would even be worth buying a soldering iron, some solder and a multimeter if you didn't already have them. Cheap radio shack iron would work just fine, and a basic multimeter from Walmart also. Watch a few videos on soldering and practice. If you started with nothing, it would still cost you under $100 including tools and relays.