Hey everyone,
Really hope this is the appropriate thread/method of asking this, I checked the FAQs for a similar soldering problem, but couldn't find one. I'm using the KBD75v2 kit and the problem is when I click the "capslock" key on keyboard tester I get activation of the entire left column of keys (like tab and shift), then with the "a" key I get activation of the second column (like q and z), and the "pg down" key also hits the group of "end, del, pg up" keys. My question is whether or not this is fixable? Did I damage the PCB? Will desoldering fix this?
Side note, after my jank soldering, I plugged in the PCB to test the switches and my old keyboard stopped working for no reason so I restarted my computer then one of my lights is green now when they were all red before soldering.
If you're wondering how I screwed up so hard basically I was soldering for the first time with my Dad's hella old jank ass solder iron and I think its temp was too low. I had to hold the solder with the iron against the pad/solder for several seconds before I got some melting and then once the liquid extended a bit, it immediately solidified. Suffice to say I did some really jank soldering. I'm not sure what type of solder it was, was in a plastic tube and looked super similar to tutorials online, didn't really know there were types until I started looking up what went wrong. I did maybe like 9 keys like this, the other keys are equally jank looking but work fine for some reason. I was too excited to build it haha, definitely regret not taking it slow. I did test the PCB ahead of time and it was all swell.
Any and all help is appreciated, I hope I can make a hobby out of this despite this hiccup.