Electronics soldering
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Ive got a REALLY tiny chip that I need to solder 3 wires onto, on a laptop (for password reset), ive never done soldering anywhere near this tiny before, anyone on here who does this sort of stuff, can you recomend me what soldering iron to buy? as obviously its not exactly the sort of stuff you can do with a halfords soldering iron etc like you can on an L8, lol
Any tips as well would be useful, obviously I know I need to be using tiny solder, so any recomendations on where to get the really thin stuff from would be good, and Ive got a fairly decent magnifying glass too.
Any tips as well would be useful, obviously I know I need to be using tiny solder, so any recomendations on where to get the really thin stuff from would be good, and Ive got a fairly decent magnifying glass too.
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You can use a cheapy iron as long as you can change the tip. Get yourself a 1mm or smaller tip, a magnifying glass, a decent light and a suitable flux pen and give it a go. Don't worry about thin solder I used whatever I had laying to do this...
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See the pins on the big square chip on what you are doing there? those are similar size to the ones I have to deal with, direct to the chip legs themselves not further out on nicely spaced out bits like you did.
The stuff you did is MUCH bigger and yeah im sure you would be ok with a 1mm tip but for what im trying to so a 1mm tip would touch 3 legs at once I reckon!
The stuff you did is MUCH bigger and yeah im sure you would be ok with a 1mm tip but for what im trying to so a 1mm tip would touch 3 legs at once I reckon!
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That looks do-able, tin the wires (don't bother trying to add solder while you're soldering) then hold the iron (with the smallest tip) on top for a couple of seconds. Make sure you coat the pins in flux first and it should be fine.
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