Overview
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Learn how to solder together components to make products or projects that use electronics under the hood.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Solder for electronic products and manufacturing
- What you need to know about soldering electronics
- Set up a safe work environment when soldering
- Basic hand tools used when soldering electronics
- What to look for when buying a soldering iron
- Available soldering Iron accessories
- Secure your work for better connections
- Types of solder used in soldering electronics
- The importance of the various available fluxes used in soldering
- Set up a new soldering iron
- How to make secure connections between wires
- How to solder wires to electronic components
- Solder an LED into a PCB
- Solder a standard resistor into a PCB
- Solder a standard capacitor into a PCB
- PCB design files
- Ordering a PCB and components
- Identify and order components
- Identification of part and the board
- Soldering complex components with lots of pins
- How to solder heavy-duty components
- Clean up your solder connections
- First steps when soldering a surface mount component
- Solder a surface mount component with a soldering iron
- Use a solder stencil for applying solder paste
- Solder a surface mount component with a hot air rework station
- Too much solder on a through hole component
- Too little solder on a through hole component
- Fixing a cold solder joint
- Fix a disturbed solder joint
- Remove a through hole component
- What to do when you have too much solder on surface mount component
- How to remove a surface mount integrated circuit
- Repair a mistake in a PCB
- Things you can do after you learn to solder
