Electronic soldering iron definition | How to Choose a good soldering

The soldering iron is our topic today, dear electronics professional blogger followers. Of course, this topic will be addressed to both professional novices due to the importance of the information it contains regarding soldering irons and tin soldering and the methods of their selection, as well as the professionalism of their use. 

The titles of our topic are as follows

Caustic soldering

Soldering tin

Choose a good soldering iron 

Choose a good tin solder

Professional use of soldering iron

Soldering iron

Tin soldering iron

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So as you all know, soldering iron or soldering iron, as some call it, is a special tool for ironing soldering tin, and that is for the meat of one of the electronic elements, for example, the mosfet, diode, capacitor, resistance and other electronic elements or to remove one of them any of the electronic elements with the aim of Change it while it is damaged.

As for the principle of work of soldering iron, it lies in melting the soldering iron under the influence of heat, which results in the connection of the electronic elements with the motherboard.

Soldering tin

Tin soldering iron

Soldering tin


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Regarding welding tin, my dear, it is a simple material sensitive to heat so that it melts when it reaches a certain temperature, this is the heat applied to it from the soldering iron. For a reference to my brothers and this idea that I will address now consider it as a stirring process, which is that the process of welding tin using soldering caustic during which smoke emits It is not recommended to smell it frequently as it may harm your health.

Choose a good soldering iron or a good soldering iron

Of course, this step is very important, as the success of the electronic tin soldering process depends on the quality of two elements, perhaps three, namely:

The meat iron should be good and suitable for the process that you will do so that if you are going to weld a certain electronic component on the phone's motherboard, you will need a tin soldering iron with a thin head, in order to avoid placing the tin solder in an excessive amount and thus the occurrence of a short circuit or short circuit. Motherboard for TV, for example, here it is not suitable for you to use a soldering iron with a thin head, but with a thick head, and that of course to put the right amount of solder.

The second element is that the tin solder itself should be of good quality and of adequate thickness, and this point we will discuss clearly in the following paragraph.

The third and most important element is that the process is performed well and professionally. Of course, this depends on you as an engineer or maintenance technician.

Choose a good tin solder

This is an important step also, so that choosing a good tin solder is one of the basics of welding on the electronic regulations. For all types of tin solder there are many in terms of quality as well as in terms of thickness. The thickness of the welding must be proportional to the tip of the tin iron and with the electronic element that will be welded, for example If you are going to weld small electronic components on a computer or phone motherboard, you should, as we said before, use a thin-head tin soldering iron, as well as a thin-thickness tin solder and vice versa. So choosing the right meat has to do with the nature of the process that we will perform.

Professional use of soldering iron

So the question about professionalism, my beloved, is present in the paragraphs that we touched upon before, but we will try to summarize and clarify it in this paragraph. The professionalism of using a tin soldering iron is based on things, namely:

Work to gain the skills of the welding process by doing welding and removing the soldering of the electronic components on a damaged motherboard, for example, in order to gain experience from that. The second thing that we mentioned before is a good choice of a good soldering iron and good welding.

So, my dear ones, who follow the blog of the electronics professionalism space, as a summary of those we covered in this post, the process of welding tin for electronics must respect three conditions to be successful:

- A good and convenient tin soldering iron

- Good and suitable welding

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