I'm not new to soldering but I got a cheap soldering iron on amazon after my old Radioshack one corroded and I couldn't find replacement heads. I must have been running it too hot, because I accidentally lifted both pads while desoldering/resoldering my R Shift while doing a full rebuild of my Tex Yoda II. I tried to bridge the switch with some wire, and I thought I was successful, however I realized that while R Shift was now working, the Key Up event was never firing. This effectively lead to a caps lock that can only be turned off with a power cycle. The pads I
I really need some help, because this is an expensive board with no spare PCBs available.
Below in picture 1 is the area in question. Notice to the right are some unused PCB holes directly to the right, where it looks like a split shift could be (if the plate allowed for such). When I bridge those two holes with tweezers, it fires shift, so I assumed that wiring the legs directly to those would be a fix. Well when I connect some wires, the shift does fire as soon as I touch the wires, but nothing happens when I press the actual key. I must need to make another set of connections somewhere, but I really don't know where. NOTE: I DID test the switch, and it works when wiring it up to a breadboard and having it trigger an LED to turn on.
If anyone could give me some assistance I'd really appreciate it. I'm trying to understand how the circuit should work, but nothing I'm trying with jumper wires or soldering directly is working.
Thanks for reading.
Picture 1: Closeup of the lifted pads. To the right you can see the split shift holes I'm referring to
Picture 2: This wiring configuration seems so dumb in retrospect, but it did work to turn the Shift on, but not back off.