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1/4" mono jack (2)
#4652
Circuit Board (1)
StickerSheet (1)
Pre-drilled enclosure (1)
Breakout Board (1)
IN GND SW OUT
PARTS LIST
(CONT)
SOLDERING
MORE HELPFUL
SOLDERING TIPS
AND TRICKS
•
Keep your soldering tip
clean by wiping it often
on a damp sponge.
•
Also keep it tinned by
occasionally melting
a little solder onto it.
•
Don’t blow on the
hot solder or touch
anything until the joint
has cooled completely.
A good solder joint
is shiny—a sign that
it was left to cool
undisturbed.
•
Plan so each joint is
only soldered once.
Resoldered joints are
messy and more likely
to fail.
The solder joints you’ll make on the circuit boards are very
small, and too much heat can damage the board. The idea is to make joints
quickly, without scorching the eyelets.
1.
Hold components in place for soldering by
threading the leads through the board and bending
them apart on the reverse side. You will be making
your solder joints on the reverse side of the board.
2.
Melt a small amount of
solder onto the tip of
the iron (“tinning” the iron).
3.
Insert the tip into the eyelet and let it heat for 4-5
seconds before touching it with solder. This heats the
contact enough for the solder to flow nicely without
damage. Feed the solder to the eyelet, not the iron,
and you don’t need much solder, just enough to fill
the eyelet. Keep the iron on the connection for a
second longer; this pause gives time for all of the flux
to cook out of the joint. After the joint has cooled,
trim away the excess lead wire.
