r/soldering • u/CaesarSaladt • 1d ago
First time soldering. Any advices? My First Solder Joint <3 Please Give Feedback
Basically the tittle. Any feedback and guidance appreciated.
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u/kartoshechka8088 1d ago
Definitely good for the first time, mine first trials were much worse and ugly.
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u/Lanky-Abbreviations3 1d ago
good job! I learnt this after a while, but the secret to good soldering is a clean and high quality soldering tip for your iron. keep it clean, keep the tin layer on the tip fresh and have a wire brush handy for scrubbing away at the oxides that form. use good flux and apply the tin to the wires and connectors after you have been warming them up with your iron. The tin then flows well. the secret is having good surface area of contact between tip and component. when the flux on the component or wire starts to flow, apply the tin and it will stick for years to come
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u/Thin_Cantaloupe_3541 1d ago edited 1d ago
Just reseated this 29f400. First time attempt. Absolutely beautiful. Always use plenty of flux and ipa to clean everything would be my tip.i checked every leg afterwards with my meter just to make sure it was all good on every joint
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u/oldmatebob123 1d ago
What i would do is tin the ends of the jumper wires, let them cool, tin the point that the jumper will solder too then solder the jumper onto the point. Helps with the burnt insulation. Then trim the tail up so it looks neat. Also use flux, dip jumper into flux then tin it, same with the point you are soldering to.
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u/BigPurpleBlob 1d ago
Nice work for first attempt!
The second photo seems to have a short circuit at the bottom right, between the lowermost 2 pins??
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u/CaesarSaladt 1d ago
İ think you mean the legs/pins of resistors. İ cut them afterward. Will connect them to katot ends.
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u/TheSolderking 1d ago
The layout seems really good but the soldering needs some work. For a first time this isn't bad.
I would recommend getting some bus wire of 30 gauge or slightly larger to run your connections on these boards. You can eliminate the point to point soldering and make it much cleaner and easier to handle by essentially running traces with bus wire.
For your joints you need to use some flux and more heat/dwell time. The solder is spiking which means it's following your iron as you pull it away. This can be addressed by using flux, more dwell time with the iron or a different direction of pulling your iron away. Remember , solder follows heat. So keep your iron on the pad and lead while making a joint.
I see a short on the back. I would address that before any power is applied if you haven't already. (Bottom right fet/transistor)
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u/polis345 1d ago
Vero board/strip board! I see a lot of people prefer the boards that just have individual pads, but imo once you figure out the Vero board it saves so many solder joints and jumper wires.
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u/ningcraft123 1d ago
Get some silicone wire instead of pvc/vinyl. Solder joints dont look the best but if it works it works
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u/luee2shot 1d ago
Heat the pad/mounting point, not the solder.
Use flux. After use clean off board with alcohol.
Get dark green boards to practice on. These brown ones offer little to no use - old technology.
Work on temp control. Some of the solder is tear drop shaped. This is telling me low heat during first application or you second guessed yourself too much trying to move components around.
Since you are using a holder, cover the clip tips with some kind non conductive material. These tips can cause pcb damage.
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u/CaesarSaladt 8h ago
Thank you all for the feedbacks. İ took your most common advice and bought flex. İt's amazing. Much easier to solder and incredibly strong.
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u/Born_2_Simp 8h ago
Don't sit on the board, the components will bend like it happened to you. Also try Altium Designer for the routing, a board like yours would have taken 10 minues at most (plus the printing, ironing, acid, etc). But never, ever, improvise connections by soldering cables between components, always check your circuit on a breadboard so that you won't have to make the PCB layout twice.
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u/VuhDooch 1h ago
Way too much solder. Generally speaking, you should almost always be able to discern the shapes of the objects you are soldering. The solder joint should look concave. The parts are held together by the solder between them. Anything else outside of that doesn't do anything except to obscure the joint and make it difficult to inspect for defects.
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u/Thin_Cantaloupe_3541 1d ago
I used a rework though and not a soldering bolt. My hands were shaking so bad lol
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u/JustBaconCloud 19h ago
also u should generally use two types of tips, small and pointy and wide and little bigger. small tip gives good control but takes longer to heat stuff. you are less likely to ruin closely packed stuff with small tip and widebtip to something like mosfet legs (can be done with small too but is way easier). well ofc depends on soldering iron you are using. also dont be afraid of flooding parts with flux...also get good flux like NC-559-asm
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u/Legal_Carpet1700 1d ago
Not bad for first time but here are some input
Never use single strand (hook up) wire for soldering they are a pain and will snatch easily
Always trim the extra pins after soldering
Component placement is good but try to push the diodes and resistors all the way in and make them flush, you can enlarge the holes if the diodes terminal are big
Use high quality zero PCB boards these brown ones are not good IMO try the green ones