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Proto hole soldering

RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,837
edited 2005-07-05 19:49 in General Discussion
I am thinking about purchasing the SX52 proto board. Now, since I am used to just using the breadboard that comes standard with all the other boards that I have used, what is the proper way of using the the proto holes. Do you stick a piece of wire in from the top and create a solder dome on the backside of the board hoping that the solder does not run over to the next hole or what. I can see that this could become pretty tedius work after the first hole. If this is to dumb of a question, just don't reply, save the sarcasm for another.

Thanks.

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2005-07-04 01:54
    Hello,

    ·· Yes, soldering is required.· If you do not feel comfortable with soldering, you·could practice soldering with cheap solder ring boards you can get almost anywhere.· Once you feel you can handle soldering those types of boards, consider·putting your·project·on the protoboard.

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  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2005-07-05 16:59
    Soldering the prototype area isn't nessesary, and isn't suggested on your first draft. Consider using wirewrapping instead, making changes to the circuit is much simpler and removing everything from the prototype area to prepare the board for your next project is also much simpler.

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2005-07-05 17:41
    Paul,

    ·· With wire-wrapping there's no reliable place to get all the signals from on a proto-board unless you solder some posts.· Simply dropping wire-wrap sockets into the hols doesn't get you reliable signals from those pads.

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  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2005-07-05 18:35
    Yeah the headers need to be soldered to provide a wire wrap post for the signals, but I got the impression he was thinking of soldering every connection.

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  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,837
    edited 2005-07-05 19:41
    Thanks guys,
    What I was trying to find out is, if·their is a particular technique to working with holes with a solder ring. I have not received my SX52 proto boards yet, but it looks like those holes are mighty close together. So, to minimize damage, is their a particular technique for doing this soldering stuff. If their is a solder ring there, shuold I rely on that to be the adhesion point, meaning no extra solder will be needed. I know their are probably a lot of guys scratching there heads right about now, but·I am not used to working with this new fangled stuff.
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  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2005-07-05 19:49
    Ok Im finally catching onto what you are specifically asking, the solder plating on the prototype holes do not provide enough solder for you to solder wires without additional solder. The solder plate is to make the hole's adhesion to solder that you add stronger and easier to bond with. You will find the .1" spacing of the holes fairly easy to work with, even to an amateur solderer. The solder mask (the green layer that covers the board where pads and protoholes are not located) does a really good job of keeping the solder off these areas (the solder will adhere and clump on areas not covered by the mask), this greatly simplifies worries of bridging one hole to another, it is still possible to do this but will require an excessive amount of solder and some determination to drag the molten solder from one hole to another while maintaining a bridge between the two holes.

    Post Edited (Paul Baker) : 7/5/2005 7:52:00 PM GMT
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