Soldering big cables

[Arnaud Ladričre]

Hello,

I'm willing to buil a soldering station, to do some hobbyist work,
thinking about Weller and Hakko, but I don't know which power ... I will
have to solder various simple components (no chips), and cables, up to
AWG 11 (4mm˛), including soldering 2 of those cables together.

Should I go for a 50W, a 80W ????

Thanx
Arnaud

 

[Arnaud Ladričre]

buil = buy ... shitty fingers

Arnaud Ladričre wrote:

Hello,

I'm willing to buil a soldering station, to do some hobbyist work,
thinking about Weller and Hakko, but I don't know which power ... I will
have to solder various simple components (no chips), and cables, up to
AWG 11 (4mm˛), including soldering 2 of those cables together.

Should I go for a 50W, a 80W ????

Thanx
Arnaud

 

[Sam Goldwasser]

Arnaud Ladričre wrote:

Hello,
I'm willing to buil a soldering station, to do some hobbyist work,
thinking about Weller and Hakko, but I don't know which power ... I
will have to solder various simple components (no chips), and
cables, up to AWG 11 (4mm˛), including soldering 2 of those cables
together. Should I go for a 50W, a 80W ????

One size doesn't fit all. Get a large iron or soldering gun for your cables.

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[Jerry G.]

I would go with a 40 to 60 Watt iron for this type of cable work. But this
iron will not be good for circuit boards or general electronics.

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"Arnaud Ladričre" <kador@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
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Hello,

I'm willing to buil a soldering station, to do some hobbyist work,
thinking about Weller and Hakko, but I don't know which power ... I will
have to solder various simple components (no chips), and cables, up to
AWG 11 (4mm˛), including soldering 2 of those cables together.

Should I go for a 50W, a 80W ????

Thanx
Arnaud

 

[CJT]

Arnaud Ladričre wrote:

Hello,

I'm willing to buil a soldering station, to do some hobbyist work,
thinking about Weller and Hakko, but I don't know which power ... I will
have to solder various simple components (no chips), and cables, up to
AWG 11 (4mm˛), including soldering 2 of those cables together.

Should I go for a 50W, a 80W ????

Thanx
Arnaud

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"Arnaud Ladričre" <kador@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
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Hello,

(snip)

Those 140w Weller guns work great when they work, but the
connections to the tip constantly oxidize on mine.

I have used the same Weller 140 watt gun for over 15 years (I also
have a small 25 watt iron but it stays cold!) On the few occasions
the Weller bent copper "bit" oxidizes at the acorn nuts I just take
them off, scrape the copper clean and re-assemble it. Make sure the
nuts are well snugged down but be careful NOT to strip the brass
threads. Keep a couple of spares bits to hand (about CDN$2.00 each.)
I've heard of people making them from thick copper wire but I've never
done it.

I did a couple of things to my Weller gun. I found that the "bit"
could be up to 45 VAC above ground (on a 10 MOhm input DMM.) This
could be reduced somewhat by reversing the two pin plug. Anyway, just
in case that could threaten any IC's, I did the following:
1. Changed the wire to a 3-wire cable (from a scrapped PC, actually.)
2. Connected a 100K resistor from the one-turn secondary to the ground
wire - drill a very small hole in the hollow thick part of the lower
secondary and anchor the wire with a self-tapping screw. Tuck
everything in the handle.

If I replaced it I would buy another Weller for general purpose work
and a temperature controlled iron with a small bit for fine work.
Recently I fixed an A-V computer amplifier that had been dropped (the
speaker had broken away from the plastic case and crunched the PCB.)
I had to bridge 10 traces with solder blobs, jump 2 larger cracks with
thin wire and replace one 470 ohm surface mount resistor that had
fallen off - for all this I used a small bit iron from the lab at
work, not the Weller!

Cheers,

Roger