Basic Soldering techniques for freshers/newbie

Soldering is the basic process required in every electronics industry and an individual should have knowledge of soldering if he is an electronics engineer.

Soldering is a process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting and flowing a filler metal (solder) into the joint, the filler metal having a lower melting point than the work piece. Soldering differs from welding in that soldering does not involve melting the work pieces.

I don't think you should go deep in theory related to soldering but you should know about the basic equipment required to soldering.

Equipment:

1. Solder Iron

2. Solder Wire

It melts and solder the components on PCB

3. Solder Flux

It removes the impurity from the solder wire during melting. it lowers the melting point of solder wire

4. General Purpose PCB

It is a General Purpose PCB on which objects are mounted.

Applications:

- Soldering is used in plumbing, in electronics and metalwork from flashing to jewelry.

- Soldering provides reasonably permanent but reversible connections between copper pipes in plumbing systems as well as joints in sheet metal objects such as food cans, roof flashing, rain gutters and automobile radiators.

- Jewelry components, machine tools and some refrigeration and plumbing components are often assembled and repaired by the higher temperature silver soldering process. Small mechanical parts are often soldered or brazed as well. Soldering is also used to join lead came and copper foil in stained glass work. It can also be used as a semi-permanent patch for a leak in a container or cooking vessel.

- Electronic soldering connects electrical wiring and electronic components to printed circuit boards (PCBs).

How to do Soldering-

#Part 2

Soldering through Hole components

How to Remove Solder

Precautions while doing soldering:

1. Hold tightly Solder iron while soldering as the temperature of solder iron is very high can burn your skin if touched.

2. Use flux for better soldering. Take flux and slightly rub on the pins that you are going to mount.

3. Do not put heated solder iron anywhere. Keep it in its case provided.

4. Use slight use of Solder wire while melting on components to avoid shorting between the pins.

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