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Recent content by Fourfifth

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    Importance of wattage for your soldering iron

    Of course you can still solder and desolder once you've removed an Ic or similar. As for the iron, does it have a small rubber sleeve that goes where you normally hold it? It might be missing, which is why its getting hot. Try winding a bit of electrical tape around it, see if its asier to...
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    Importance of wattage for your soldering iron

    Hi, I meant with solder, not just touch the flux with the iron :) Ditto, only I dont get the luxury of soldering through holes :( Dont think I've ever seen a mobile phone with through hole IC's :D
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    Running a 12V inverter on 9V

    I couldnt say for sure whether or not it would work at all or glow weaker, my guess is not at all, since it is EL and it usually requires all the voltage it can get. What you should do it build a stepup switching DC-DC converter, or a nice little 555 oscillator with 3:1 transformer. If you...
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    Importance of wattage for your soldering iron

    Cpemma is right about the soldering iron selection, 18w is a good choice. As for the flux in solder, Its just not enough. When you touch a pad/pin with fluxed solder you'll notice it makes a nice joint. But go ahead and put a little flux on there and touch it with your iron, notice how it...
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    Importance of wattage for your soldering iron

    The technique he's talking about takes a short while to get used to. you flood the pins with flux, and with a small blob of solder on the iron, gently, but at a constant speed, sweep across all the pins. The flux along with the solder surface tension will cause the solder to stick to each...
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    Importance of wattage for your soldering iron

    I use a 48w LCD Temp controlled station. It is digitally adjustable between 200 and 400 degrees and increments of 1 or 10degrees. It does the job very well, since a lot of soldering I do is SMD componants. The heatsink your referring to is a heat shunt, its basically a set of clamping SMD...
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    please help me identify this device.

    Looks like someone beat me too it :P
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    please help me identify this device.

    Looks like a Germanium based transistor. Would need to see a schematic, or better overall view of where its in use. FF
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    control my home lighting from laptop?

    I find controlling anything much easier using paralell. Theres loads of info, its easier to write programs for and is solid.
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    Can anyone identify this phone? I want one!

    Im pretty sure this is a panasonic prototype, if not its a sharp. Had a 2 page spread on it in one of the magazines in our workshop. Was 3.2mp camera and pretty sure it had DVB TV.
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    soldering a capacitor?

    Smart man, yes, using a heat shunt like a croc clip is a great idea. Over heat the cap and your gonna have electrolyte leaking in places you dont want it leaking. use solder mop to remove the old solder, place the iron on the contact and leg and feed the solder onto the contact(not the iron)...
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    iPod nano voltage?

    Its 3.7v at 400mAh. I work on these all day long.
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    Would this radiator do the job?

    Im not the type to buy anything premade, so I have decided to build a water set up from scratch. I have it all planned out, all the circuitry lay out(temp lcds, emergency cooling etc) but now Im down to part planning. This radiator is for pocketbikes(those nippy little bikes) what do you...
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    MB cleaning.

    Hi, what you want to use is IPA(isopropyl alcohol) and a toothbrush. Firmly scrub the board, watch out for any caps, be gentle around those. To drain the caps(which never really hold a charge) just reattach the fan with no battery and power on, it usually does the trick. If you cant get...
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