[sdiy] what temp do you solder at?

[Bob Weigel]

I keep one more around 360 here of late for working on tube amps and 
stuff with a medium sized chizel tip.  Bad things can happen to weak 
circuit boards at that temp though.  It really depends on what you are 
soldering.  Sometimes if you have the iron too cool and you have a 
ground pad that dissipates a lot of heat, you actually wind up getting 
the components more stressed than if you had the tip hotter!  Ideally 
you would adjust the temperature and tip type for each joint 
but...that's not really practical usually :-).  But anyway totally 
depends what you are working on.  -Bob

Brett Maddaford wrote:

> Hi all sorry i have checked the archives but couldnt find much there 
> and everything i do read seems to be different.
>  
> I was just wondering what temp people recommend soldering standard 
> kinda parts at....1\4 resistors, electro caps and trannies etc on 
> standard printed pcbs like the oakley and cgs type.
>  
> I am obviuosly getting better as time goes on with so i am pushing the 
> iron a bit higher in temp so that i can get each joint done fatser and 
> move onto the next...from what i read a higher temp for a shorter 
> period can be better than a slighty lower temp but for a longer time 
> on certain components, is that true?
>  
> Most of what iread suggest start at 260c and go from there, depending 
> on the part im working with im usually at around 305-320c is that 
> about right?
>  
> Ive never had a project or part die on me so i assume im doing right 
> but its been buggin me to get the right answer on this and obviously 
> id rather find out now if im doing something wrong rather than yeasr 
> later when joins etc go wrong on me etc
>  
> thanks
> Brett
>  
>
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