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Fixing the OP-1 faulty headphone jack

A weak point on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 is the headphone jack becomes faulty. It happened to mine. One channel became crackly and only worked after wiggling the connector. I was advised to buy a whole new I/O connector board, which seemed like a waste.  Instead I found a bad solder joint that was causing…

A weak point on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 is the headphone jack becomes faulty.

It happened to mine. One channel became crackly and only worked after wiggling the connector.

I was advised to buy a whole new I/O connector board, which seemed like a waste. 

Instead I found a bad solder joint that was causing one channel to be crackly and intermittent. Let me show you…

Remove the IO-board cover 

Inspect the solder joints on the 3.5mm jacks

You might need to wiggle the jack to find the bad joint

Resolder any bad joints And that’s it

I resoldered the bad joint, adding a small amount of fresh solder. All working.

So if you have a faulty jack connector on your OP-1 it’s like just a bad solder joint on the connector PCB, which is easily be fixed with a soldering iron and much cheaper than buying a new board. 

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