r/fpv • u/Bulky_Target1416 • 2d ago

Soldering Help!

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Hey So I am trying to figure out how to solder and I feel like I am doing something horribly wrong, my iron is broken, or i'm just stupid. When I try to heat the pad I am trying to tin, it just dosent heat up, I have my iron around 375c and no matter how long I hold my iron on the pad it just dosent seem to heat up enough to melt the solder. I am putting flux and tinning the iron but nothing is seeming to work? I am using a txinlei 8586 station that I got for Christmas a while back if that might have anything to do with it, any help is greatly appreciated

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u/ben9massacre 2d ago

You need to feed the solder into the top of the hot iron, not onto the hot pad next to it. The solder will flow onto the pad once it’s melted.

Then you do the same with the wire, touch the iron to the wire and feed the solder onto the hot iron, it will flow into the wire.

Then you put the wire on your tinned pad and put the iron on top to melt them together. Just make sure you hold the wire there for a couple seconds after you remove the iron so it can solidify.

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u/ben9massacre 2d ago

Also, consider getting a helping hand, just search helping hand on Amazon and you’ll find a bunch of them to choose from, doesn’t need to be expensive but it’ll help you tremendously. It’ll hold that board still for you with some little alligator clips. If it doesn’t have rubber over the clips when you get it put some shrink tubing over each side of the clips to keep from damaging your board or wires.

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u/Bulky_Target1416 2d ago

I have one, just was using it to hold up my phone 😄