Fanttik Innovation Direct via Amazon has Fanttik T1 Max Cordless Soldering Iron Kit w/ Stand & 4 Tips on sale for $76.99 - $24.70 with promo code 49T1MAXSD at checkout = $49.59. Shipping is free.
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Extreme Tinning: Fanttik T1 MAX is equipped with 4pcs C210 (C210-I, C210-IS, 2pcs C210-K) rapid heating soldering tips, long service life, and anti-oxidation. You can achieve fast heating/reheating time, where the fastest time is 7 seconds. Consequently, it reduces the waiting time and improves the efficiency of your repair tasks. Also, with its solder sucker and precision tweezers, you can carry out soldering tasks smoothly and securely.
Compatible DC/AC Modes: With the powerful built-in 2600mAh battery in wireless mode, the maximum DC Output is 11W for up to 60 minutes at 840°F (450°C). Its small size is not bound by space, and maintenance work can be carried out anywhere. In wired mode, the maximum AC Output is 16W. It can be powered by a charger or mobile power supply with a Type-C port.
Intelligent Gravity Sensing: After powered on, the soldering iron stand still for 15 seconds will enter sleep mode. Fanttik T1 MAX will automatically restart to heat up to the temperature you set when picking it up again. NOTE: The red light will flash when heating, while the green light is always on when heating is finished.
6 Temperature Levels: The tail knob of the soldering iron has 6 levels for adjusting the temperature. The temperature can be adjusted accurately and efficiently for different work scene in the range between 390°F and 840°F (200°C - 450°C) so as not to damage heat-resistant components.
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Fanttik Innovation Direct via Amazon has Fanttik T1 Max Cordless Soldering Iron Kit w/ Stand & 4 Tips on sale for $76.99 - $24.70 with promo code 49T1MAXSD at checkout = $49.59. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Staff Member Skillful_Pickle for sharing this deal.
About this Item:
Extreme Tinning: Fanttik T1 MAX is equipped with 4pcs C210 (C210-I, C210-IS, 2pcs C210-K) rapid heating soldering tips, long service life, and anti-oxidation. You can achieve fast heating/reheating time, where the fastest time is 7 seconds. Consequently, it reduces the waiting time and improves the efficiency of your repair tasks. Also, with its solder sucker and precision tweezers, you can carry out soldering tasks smoothly and securely.
Compatible DC/AC Modes: With the powerful built-in 2600mAh battery in wireless mode, the maximum DC Output is 11W for up to 60 minutes at 840°F (450°C). Its small size is not bound by space, and maintenance work can be carried out anywhere. In wired mode, the maximum AC Output is 16W. It can be powered by a charger or mobile power supply with a Type-C port.
Intelligent Gravity Sensing: After powered on, the soldering iron stand still for 15 seconds will enter sleep mode. Fanttik T1 MAX will automatically restart to heat up to the temperature you set when picking it up again. NOTE: The red light will flash when heating, while the green light is always on when heating is finished.
6 Temperature Levels: The tail knob of the soldering iron has 6 levels for adjusting the temperature. The temperature can be adjusted accurately and efficiently for different work scene in the range between 390°F and 840°F (200°C - 450°C) so as not to damage heat-resistant components.
Model: Fanttik T1 Max Soldering Iron Kit, Cordless Soldering Iron, 7 Seconds Fast Heating(390°F-840℉), Auto Sleep, 4 Precision Soldering Tips(C210), 360° Swivel Stand, Soldering Iron for Precision Repair
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This is great! I got this for about 5 dollars less or so on the deal from a month ago. Comes with practically everything you need! Only thing extra I'd get is the steel wool. I forget the official name, but the golden looking metal sponge to wipe your iron on. Oh yeah, and you need your own solder.
This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tip gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it to work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a solder sucker and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
Just learned how to solder early this year. Piece of advice that helped me:
- Get some helping hands. Helps tremendously
- Use flux. If you don't, sometimes they'd stick but your life will get a hell of a lot easier with flux. I use Amtech NC 559 flux that comes in syringe. Easy to apply
- Always clean your tip after soldering each module. Oxidation on the tip makes it hard for soldering tin to stick
- if soldering wires, pre-tin the wires before soldering them together. Heck, pre-tin anything that you're able to
- use the right tip for the job
I'm no means a pro but these helped me. I'm still having a tough time soldering those dang XT60 connectors. Sometimes I get it quick, sometimes I start melting the plastic before I can even solder the wires onto it.
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Can anyone competent with soldering comment on this device and How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
This is great! I got this for about 5 dollars less or so on the deal from a month ago. Comes with practically everything you need! Only thing extra I'd get is the steel wool. I forget the official name, but the golden looking metal sponge to wipe your iron on. Oh yeah, and you need your own solder.
This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tip gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it to work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a solder sucker and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
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This is great! I got this for about 5 dollars less or so on the deal from a month ago. Comes with practically everything you need! Only thing extra I'd get is the steel wool. I forget the official name, but the golden looking metal sponge to wipe your iron on. Oh yeah, and you need your own solder.
This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tio gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a soldering sucked and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
I hadn't seen anyone delivery like this in a long time.
Thank you (even though I'm not op)
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Can anyone competent with soldering comment on this device and
How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
I would start with a cheap kit and flux. Start by finding wires of different sizes, cut them and try to solder them back together. Once you get the hang of it, take out a board from any old electronic and learn to remove the components on the board and resolder them. If you get the hang of this two things you'll be able to fix most things you come across.
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Can anyone competent with soldering comment on this device and
How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
Just learned how to solder early this year. Piece of advice that helped me:
- Get some helping hands. Helps tremendously
- Use flux. If you don't, sometimes they'd stick but your life will get a hell of a lot easier with flux. I use Amtech NC 559 flux that comes in syringe. Easy to apply
- Always clean your tip after soldering each module. Oxidation on the tip makes it hard for soldering tin to stick
- if soldering wires, pre-tin the wires before soldering them together. Heck, pre-tin anything that you're able to
- use the right tip for the job
I'm no means a pro but these helped me. I'm still having a tough time soldering those dang XT60 connectors. Sometimes I get it quick, sometimes I start melting the plastic before I can even solder the wires onto it.
Bought this today and I had an extra 15% off on the page. So it was $47 ish after taxes. Been wanting a portable solder for stuff where there are no plugs nearby. I have a real solder/reflow station but this should be a good daily driver.
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This is great! I got this for about 5 dollars less or so on the deal from a month ago. Comes with practically everything you need! Only thing extra I'd get is the steel wool. I forget the official name, but the golden looking metal sponge to wipe your iron on. Oh yeah, and you need your own solder.
This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tip gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it to work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a solder sucker and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
Great summation on starting out and what's needed to solder proficiently.
Do you find yourself needing to walk around to solder? No? Then buy a $15 corded model that will get hotter quicker and use universal replacement tips.
My 2 cents.
Comes with practically everything you need! Only thing extra I'd get is the steel wool. I forget the official name, but the golden looking metal sponge to wipe your iron on.
Use a magnet. You want brass wool - brass-colored steel wool is hard on tips.
When i was in school, they were giving it out, and basically i taught half my class how to start soldering with it. It also teaches you about basic electronics components too! (Some folks were kinda funny, they were so focused on soldering they had to redo the capacitors lol)
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This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tip gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it to work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a solder sucker and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
- Get some helping hands. Helps tremendously
- Use flux. If you don't, sometimes they'd stick but your life will get a hell of a lot easier with flux. I use Amtech NC 559 flux that comes in syringe. Easy to apply
- Always clean your tip after soldering each module. Oxidation on the tip makes it hard for soldering tin to stick
- if soldering wires, pre-tin the wires before soldering them together. Heck, pre-tin anything that you're able to
- use the right tip for the job
I'm no means a pro but these helped me. I'm still having a tough time soldering those dang XT60 connectors. Sometimes I get it quick, sometimes I start melting the plastic before I can even solder the wires onto it.
Thank you (even though I'm not op)
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How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
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This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tip gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it to work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a solder sucker and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tio gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a soldering sucked and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
I hadn't seen anyone delivery like this in a long time.
Thank you (even though I'm not op)
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How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
I would start with a cheap kit and flux. Start by finding wires of different sizes, cut them and try to solder them back together. Once you get the hang of it, take out a board from any old electronic and learn to remove the components on the board and resolder them. If you get the hang of this two things you'll be able to fix most things you come across.
Example for a cheap kit: https://www.amazon.com/Soldering-...192&sr=8-3
Example for flux: https://www.amazon.com/Solder-Sol...196&sr=8-4
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How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
Just learned how to solder early this year. Piece of advice that helped me:
- Get some helping hands. Helps tremendously
- Use flux. If you don't, sometimes they'd stick but your life will get a hell of a lot easier with flux. I use Amtech NC 559 flux that comes in syringe. Easy to apply
- Always clean your tip after soldering each module. Oxidation on the tip makes it hard for soldering tin to stick
- if soldering wires, pre-tin the wires before soldering them together. Heck, pre-tin anything that you're able to
- use the right tip for the job
I'm no means a pro but these helped me. I'm still having a tough time soldering those dang XT60 connectors. Sometimes I get it quick, sometimes I start melting the plastic before I can even solder the wires onto it.
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This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tip gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it to work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a solder sucker and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
Great summation on starting out and what's needed to solder proficiently.
My 2 cents.
How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
I highly highly highly reccomend the $10-$15 STEM kits like:
https://a.co/d/7HMLNII
When i was in school, they were giving it out, and basically i taught half my class how to start soldering with it. It also teaches you about basic electronics components too! (Some folks were kinda funny, they were so focused on soldering they had to redo the capacitors lol)
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