How To Solder Wires Correctly

Sand the bare ends with an emery cloth knife.

How to solder wires correctly. Move the iron to the opposite bottom side of the connection and repeat the same technique. Heat and Solder the Joint including closeup pics of the proper way to hold the iron against the work. Then add some solder until the wire is soaked with solder.

Always place the soldering iron or gun UNDER the wires and add the solder to the TOP of the wire. You may select the dipping time as per your litz wire AWG size as below table. Because it basically has no temperature control and such soldering irons typically have the tip at really high temperatures like 400-500 degrees Celsius Due to this high temperature the flux inside the solder wire you use has practically no time to turn into liquid and flow over the area you want to solder and do its work clean the area make it ready for the actual solder to work and glue the two.

At some point over the next 2-10 seconds depending on how hot your iron is the wires will be hot enough to melt the solder. Make sure to heat it before because of that the Solder melts and joints with the connector. Slide the iron to the end of the connection and then to the other end.

Hold the two tinned wires on top of each other and touch the soldering iron to both wiresHow to solder wires together correctly like a proIf you want to join two wires with solder the first thing you should do is to tin the two wires. Touch the tip of the soldering iron to the wires and keep it there. Apply Solder Flux to the Wire Joint.

While there are probably a thousand different ways to do this there are also a thousand different ways to do it wrong. Also numerous good and bad joint pics. Tin the tip Tips for prolonging tip life making soldering easier.

Capillary action plays an important role in distributing the solder throughout the splice. Soldering Two Wires. But even in the soldering community theres still room to argue.