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| tpowell1830:
--- Quote from: PerranOak on August 22, 2017, 03:09:22 pm ---Often, when I am soldering onto a Vero board, the insulation on the connecting wire gets so hot that it melts back and recedes up the core! This means that a short is highly likely. Is there any connecting wire that can stand the heat? Cheers. --- End quote --- All of the above, but if you are still seeing the problem, slide some heat shrink onto your wires before soldering, and then slide them back up as far as possible to the solder joint and then shrink. I do this as a norm for several reasons, one of which is that it looks very professional when I am done. I am a bit OCD about cutting all of my heat shrink tubing to the exact same length so they all look very uniform. Hope this helps... |
| Electro Detective:
Yep, any narrow metal clipon put on 'tightly' gets the job done every time and wicks away heat where it should not be :-+ Heatshrink can work too, done it many times but be advised if the iron is too hot or kept on there too long, it can still burn small wire strands to oblivion underneath the heatshrink, and you won't know :-[ |
| amyk:
Soldering too slowly will do that. For the average 20-24 gauge wire, you shouldn't need more than 500ms or so of contact with the iron and solder. The tip should be clean, tinnned, and hot enough that the solder melts instantly on contact with it. |
| ogden:
--- Quote from: PerranOak on August 22, 2017, 03:09:22 pm ---Often, when I am soldering onto a Vero board, the insulation on the connecting wire gets so hot that it melts back and recedes up the core! --- End quote --- Use wire with PTFE insulation and as already said - soldering iron with temperature control. |
| austfox:
Depending on the type of veroboard you are using, some of them take a while for the flux to do it's work and allow the solder to 'stick'. A light sand with steel wool or fine wet and dry sandpaper can often help. I've used Protostack veroboards with great success, much better than the generic phenolic veroboards. |
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