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Lab 04 - Soldering
In this lab we practiced soldering. The two things that we practiced were soldering two wires together and soldering components to a board.
To get ready to solder the two wires together you have to strip the shielding off the wire and try to make sure the strands inside twist together to make it easier to solder them together without air pockets inside.
This is one of the final products of my practice soldering two wires during this lab. It’s not good but not terrible. the wire ends should have been closer to the others shielding and the solder is holding it together but it’s not very strong.
This is an example of a bad solder. the wires were not strongly held together by the solder, and I was able to tear it apart with little effort. The wires were soldered at an angle making them soldered in an X creating gaps at the ends of the wires making it a weak connection.
This is my attempt to solder a component to a circuit board. Here I did a good job at making the volcano like cone around the component creating a good connection.
This picture is hard to see but this attempt was not as good, and I had less solder on the component. What caused this to go wrong was I didn’t properly heat up the component and board so the solder didn’t melt and form around the component correctly.
In this final image we have a comparison between my two solders. The solder on the right of the resistor is my attempt that turned out pretty good and the right side is the side that ended not so good.
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