Phat DAC no audio

[Grizmo]

I’m trying to get pHAT DAC to work on a raspberry pi zero w. I soldered it and ran

 curl -sS https://get.pimoroni.com/phatdac | bash.

On 2nd run(test) there is no sound. I tried the manual install aswell but same result. What should I do?
Also no sound with

 speaker-test -c 2 -t wav


pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=sndrpihifiberry
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac,
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac,
Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac,
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac,
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac,
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac,
Hardware device with all software conversions

Soldering:

[deww]

I had a phat dac where I can’t get any sound out of either. I was luckily able to exchange for another one and used the “lazy” method of soldering the new one and now the dac I have works great.

pHAT header soldering the lazy way

here are some pics of the pHATs soldered the lazy way. By lazy, I mean that only some of the pins were soldered. For simplicity (or added strength), sometimes I included some pins unnecessary for functionality. a basic rule of thumb, if you’re not sure what is needed, is to solder 6 pins (2x3) at both ends, then check http://pinout.xyz for any additional pins needed for operation. It’s sometimes possible to tell what pins are in use by examining the circuit board (on both sides!), and if you’d …

[gadgetoid]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you appear to have soldered the pHAT DAC to the Pi Zero upside-down.

Right-side top-wards it should look like this: