Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Day 1: Stripping Wires & Soldering

Today in Electronics 10.

Today we learned how to solder and how to work safely in laboratory situations.

We went over an extensive safety manual and took a safety test!

We then watched a clip on introductory soldering.

-A good solder joint is one where the solder looks shiny and covers all of the copper on the opposite side of the board.

-A bad solder joint could be one that is lumpy or big or does not cover the whole copper part. Also it could be one that does not fully cover the lead and/or does not attach itself well to the board.

We were supposed to solder at least 20 leads, i did a bit more just for practice.

Here is my finished product.





Next we practiced stripping wires and welding them to eachother end to end.

This practice was useful for cutting up an old power supply and welding new wires to the power supply.

After this I put some shrink wrap on it and secured the wires to prevent stress.

This is my finished product.


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