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Help with Pinecil - saranelson - 11-08-2024
Hello,
I recently purchased a Pinecil to repair my headphones.
Before tackling the headphones, I practiced soldering jump wires to a proto board. While the soldering process itself was quick and neat, the desoldering proved to be quite a challenge. I spent an hour and a half trying to desolder a jump wire at 400°C, but I was unsuccessful. The solder just wouldn't adhere to the desoldering braid, and even when it did, it would immediately get stuck, preventing me from heating it enough to return to a liquid state.
Could my struggles with desoldering be due to using a 45-watt power supply? Would switching to a 65-watt supply make a difference?
RE: Help with Pinecil - biketool - 11-09-2024
(11-08-2024, 12:32 AM)saranelson Wrote: Hello,
I recently purchased a Pinecil to repair my headphones.
Before tackling the headphones, I practiced soldering jump wires to a proto board. While the soldering process itself was quick and neat, the desoldering proved to be quite a challenge. I spent an hour and a half trying to desolder a jump wire at 400°C, but I was unsuccessful. The solder just wouldn't adhere to the desoldering braid, and even when it did, it would immediately get stuck, preventing me from heating it enough to return to a liquid state.
Could my struggles with desoldering be due to using a 45-watt power supply? Would switching to a 65-watt supply make a difference?
using flux?
soldering is all about flux, either paste or solid flux.