"Jason D." wrote in message
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There are no thru-holes. All components are smt. The mechanic says an
instrument specialist told him that these flex cables are known to
separate in normal use, probably due to heat and vibration. He claims
these units are irreparable.

Here is a photo of the PCB:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~fzabkar/pcb_trace.jpg

The connection point is above and between the two lamps. The traces go
directly to a microcontroller. Note that there are numerous test
points which look like thru-holes, but I believe these could be for
bed-of-nails testing (???).

Yes, those "bumps" are for the bed of nail test points.

Looks like the ribbon and the pads on the circuit board are good, Why
not do a low-temp soldering?

Next time use a good older program like photo shop pro 5.x (ebay
hopefully) to crop it (this chops off the unneeded pixels) then shrink
it down to 50% to cut down bytes, 30% is minimum for smallest size
without losing too much details.



You don't even need that, you can get IrfanView for free, it'll resize,
convert formats, colors, etc not to mention view just about anything.