Soldering

Pages
- Intro (Unit 0)
  Classroom Expectations
  What is Soldering?
  The Electronics Technician
- Safety (Unit 1)
- How to Solder (Unit 3)
  Preparing your components
  Tinning wires
  Perfecting your technique
  Tip care
  Troubleshooting
  Writing a Manual
  Create Your Manual Document
  How to Write Your Manual
  Prove It!
  Paragraph #1: You as the teacher
  Paragraph #2: What do I like?
- Pitfalls
- Through Hole Sol... (Unit 4)
  Prepping your components
  Perfecting your technique
  Clean up
  Troubleshooting
- Surface Mount Sol... (Unit 5)
  How its done
  Troubleshooting
- Soldering (Tools Unit 2)
- Desoldering (Unit 6)
- Soldering Kits (Unit 7)
- You Did It!
- Technical Term Review

Soldering

Pitfalls

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Pitfalls

There are 3 common mistakes students make when soldering.

Using the soldering iron like a paintbrush or dripping solder.

This method fails for 2 reasons. It uses contaminated/ not fresh solder. The wires/leads and pads do not get hot enough for the solder to effectively wet them. This means your solder joint may not produce a good electrical connection. We work too hard producing good projects to have them go bad from a bad solder joint.

Putting the solder on the pad before melting it.

This method may not heat the wires/leads and pads enough for the solder to wet the joint.

Heating a part too much. Students may trying for too long to fix a bad joint which ends up heating the component too hot and destroying it internally. Before this becomes a problem try to come up with a plan to fix the problem you have. There are some characteristic signs you can look at to tell you how to fix your problem.

See

Troubleshooting⁠

for some of the ways soldering can go wrong and how to fix it.

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