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How To Solder: Captain Matt Audette Jan 2017

The document provides an overview of how to solder, including the necessary tools, safety precautions, soldering techniques, and best practices. It explains that soldering involves heating components with an iron to melt solder and join wires or parts, and recommends using a soldering station to regulate heat as well as practicing basic techniques like tinning tips and different joining methods. The document also lists additional useful tools and safety tips for soldering electronic components and circuits.

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How To Solder: Captain Matt Audette Jan 2017

The document provides an overview of how to solder, including the necessary tools, safety precautions, soldering techniques, and best practices. It explains that soldering involves heating components with an iron to melt solder and join wires or parts, and recommends using a soldering station to regulate heat as well as practicing basic techniques like tinning tips and different joining methods. The document also lists additional useful tools and safety tips for soldering electronic components and circuits.

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How to Solder

Captain Matt Audette


Jan 2017
[email protected]
404-304-9903
Topics Covered
• Overview
• Minimal Tools
• Nice to Haves
• Safety
• How to Solder
• Best Practices
• Prac App
Overview
• Different than welding
• More like brazing
• Solder: conducts, low melting temperature
• Iron: heats up, melts solder
• Joins wires, PCBs, electronic components

• Quickly: Soldering in the Dojo


Soldering Irons
• Gets hot
• Like really hot
• Gets components hot!
• Will get you hot!
• Parts
• Tip types/sizes, changeability

• Soldering Station
• Unregulated heat
Solder
• Alloy
• Pb, Tin
• Conducts electricity
• Spools, tubes
• Different gauges
• 2 types: leaded and Lead Free
Types of Solder

Leaded Unleaded
• Pb, Tin • Tin, copper, silver
• Lower melting temperature • No lead = higher melting
• Sticks to itself temperature
• Station
• More difficult to use
• Does contain lead. • “rosin core” / flux
• EU banned, CA Hard to find • Fumes
Minimal Tools
• Iron
• Solder
• Knife/wire strippers

• Tape/heat shrink
• Wire cutters/pliers
Nice to Haves:
• Helping hands
• Flux
• Sponge/brass sponge
• Cradle
• Station
• Solder pump/vacuum/wick
• Ventilator
• PCB Vice

• Adam Savage’s Rule of Tool Buying


https://i.imgur.com/IGW8DcX.gifv
Soldering Stations
• Regulates heat of the iron
• w/o, get hotter and hotter
• Varying levels
• Cost vs niceness
• Tailor to your level!

• Plugs
Safety
• It gets hot
• Fumes
• Ventilated room
• Ventilator
• Leaded solder

• NEVER SOLDER BATTERIES


Soldering
• Good solder joint • Heat both ends to be soldered
• “inside” wires evenly
• Strip wires • Both wires
• Wire and the PCB
• Join wires –
• Heat your components, THEN
• Apply flux add the solder
• Apply iron
• 1 second count
• Side of the iron, NOT the tip
• Apply solder
• “Sweet spot”
• Wait
• Remove solder
• Remove iron
Tinning the Iron’s Tip
• Hot tips oxidize
• Tinned tips are easier to use
• Brass sponge/damp sponge
• “Buttering bread” motion
• Place solder on tip, let it melt
• Coat the tip in solder, let sit
• Brush off extra solder
Joining Wires
• Laying on top
• “Mash up”
• Twist
• Western Union Pigtail
• Best- NASA

• “Wrong” is doesn’t conduct


• Bulky is inconvenient
Western Union Pig Tail
Practice!
Soldering onto PCBs
Best Practices/Pro Tips
• “Sweet spot” • Flush cut cutters
• Pull the iron away quickly
Further Reading/Watching
• https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-solder---through-hole-
soldering/soldering-irons
Further Reading/Watching
References
References: Videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f95i88OSWB4
• https://learn.adafruit.com/minty-boost/solder-it

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