Most soldering irons don't have a temperature setting, and if they do, they're probably wildly inaccurate, unless you spent a lot of money on the soldering iron. This is soldering, not cooking, so we don't need to get worked up about the temperature you use right now. As ...
The soldering iron in most of the pictures is made by Weller, and has a variable temperature control. This is the best of both worlds since you can set the heat exactly where you want it, but it's significantly more expensive than fixed-temperature irons. If you're just going to do so...
If you would like to know more about building circuits without needing to pick up a soldering iron, check out our solderless breadboard tutorial: How to Use a Breadboard Welcome to the wonderful world of breadboards. Here we will learn what a breadboard is and how to use one to build yo...
Soft soldering is a technique used to join wires, fix electronic components onto circuit boards and bond copper pipes together. This tutorial shows you how to solder step by step.
Yeah, I noticed that with my old weller soldering iron and SAC305 solder. I had to buy a proper soldering station in order to work with leadfree solder. Blumlein 88 Grand Contributor Forum Donor Joined Feb 23, 2016 Messages 22,851 Likes 42,327 Sep 23, 2019 #5 Starquad cables and...
Ceramic Chip Resistors & Caps & the Hot Air Pencil.As the transition from Thru-Hole to SMT accelerated, an immediate drawback with the use of soldering irons and hot tweezers appeared: miniature ceramic chip capacitors and resistors cracked or fissured when soldered to the PCB. The cracking ...
to get the job done. A point I'd like to stress is the myth about requiring anything exotic to work with most surface-mount parts. I don't own or use any special soldering equipment for this. All of the soldering that I've done on surface-mount boards is built with an old Weller ...
Once done, I used 2 soldering irons to melt the grooves into the foam. First a line to get the basic groove to follow using a standard weller 100 watt soldering iron, the pistol variety (probably could skip this step). Next a heavy groove was made using a lead window iron (approx....
For battery packs though, you'll need atleast a 40watt iron. If you can find a big head 100watt iron, thats perfect, or a nice Weller soldering station gets hot enough to do a very good job. Another thing, I dont care who makes your packs, SR, Or wattage, the only way t...
Indeed, however, some irons have very large catalyser ports so it may be unnecessary to use a specific hot air tip. Additionally, on that specific weller iron, you can just use it as a small butane torch, without a tip+catalyzer and heat the heat shrink with that if you keep your dist...