Learning Soldering for Electronics

Introduction

• Solder for electronic products and manufacturing
• What you need to know about soldering electronics

1. Setting Up Your Workbench for Soldering

• 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

2. Making Connections with Solder

• 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

3. Soldering through Hole 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

4. Surface Mount Soldering

• 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

5. How to Fix Mistakes

• 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

Conclusion

• Things you can do after you learn to solder