Soldering battery wires to the main board during testing.

Step 2 on page 14 of the CBA manual. Instead of soldering the battery wires into the battery holes of the main board, solder them to two pads close to the final battery connection holes.

The negative (black) battery lead is soldered to one terminal of SW1, be sure it is the terminal closest to the edge of the board. The positive (red) battery lead is soldered to one terminal of SW2, be sure it is the terminal closest to the permanent battery holes. The wires should be soldered just to the solder pad and need not go into the holes. After soldering check to see that the leads do not run long and touch other solder pads or traces. This way the permanent battery holes will remain clean for the final permanent connection.

The "servo test.bs2" program used in Step 13 on page 25 of the CBA manual was not on the included BudgetBot.com CD.

The program is now included in the "Testing and setup programs for the CBA robot" file available in the downloads section.

Soldering Machine Pin Sockets onto the LFM Board

Step 5 on page 6 of the LFM manual. To aid in the alignment of the sockets, plug two sensors into the two outside sockets of both 20-socket headers.This assembly can then be places onto the board and taped in place for soldering. Once the outside two pines of each header have been soldered you can remove the sensors.

This same procedure can be used for the eight 2-socket long headers that are placed in Step 6 on page 7.