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Back again with another video that hopefully will help you guys specially the younger new people to soldering in the RC hobby. I see far too many "How to" videos with people doing work on RC things. Very few have a clue what they are doing and simply post their way of doing it. In this video I will show you how to prep any PC board to get it ready for wires. This one happens to be a PDB I have for a project I am doing. The next in this series will be when I replace components and do some rework on my Alien to get it ready for spring and back in proper working order as parts have worn over time and need replacing.
Anyway the written version for this mainly boils down to "YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CRANK THE HEAT ON YOUR IRON" to solder safely and properly. Stop doing that and you will stop burning up your wires , cooking your electronics, lifting pads and so forth. The main problem people run into when soldering is not the lack of heat but the inability of their irons to keep a steady temperature when soldering. This gives the appearance of too low heat but is not the case 99% of the time.
There are techniques I will show to help mitigate this property and hopefully teach you better soldering practices should you choose to accept what I tell and show you. Later in this series I will show other bad habits people do far too much and get you in the practice where you do not do these things because you will then be conscious of what it is that may be causing some of your problems with hobby electronics work.
For now lets stick to basic things to make soldering easy while not roasting everything you do just to attach wires to a board.
Back again with another video that hopefully will help you guys specially the younger new people to soldering in the RC hobby. I see far too many "How to" videos with people doing work on RC things. Very few have a clue what they are doing and simply post their way of doing it. In this video I will show you how to prep any PC board to get it ready for wires. This one happens to be a PDB I have for a project I am doing. The next in this series will be when I replace components and do some rework on my Alien to get it ready for spring and back in proper working order as parts have worn over time and need replacing.
Anyway the written version for this mainly boils down to "YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CRANK THE HEAT ON YOUR IRON" to solder safely and properly. Stop doing that and you will stop burning up your wires , cooking your electronics, lifting pads and so forth. The main problem people run into when soldering is not the lack of heat but the inability of their irons to keep a steady temperature when soldering. This gives the appearance of too low heat but is not the case 99% of the time.
There are techniques I will show to help mitigate this property and hopefully teach you better soldering practices should you choose to accept what I tell and show you. Later in this series I will show other bad habits people do far too much and get you in the practice where you do not do these things because you will then be conscious of what it is that may be causing some of your problems with hobby electronics work.
For now lets stick to basic things to make soldering easy while not roasting everything you do just to attach wires to a board.