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| lizby Guru  Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3378 |
I can't say how "true" it is, but the iron I linked to has a little dial for variable temperature (no digital readout). For me, it has been set once and forget. I have soldered some joints that my old 15W Radio Shack iron (which I successfully used for years) struggled with. With the Aliex iron, might have to crank it up--but I've never known what temperature my iron tip was with some thousands of joints soldered (nothing, I know, to those who have done it professionally). PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7938 |
Link broken, John. :( JLCPCB is easy to work with. Go to the ordering page and upload the zip file containing the gerbers. A page appears with all sorts of things on it that you can change, but they are all optional. I sometimes change the board colour to something other than green, but it adds 2 days to your order. Just accept the settings and you're more or less done. Pay and go. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7938 |
@lizby I've had two temp controlled irons with readouts and two with calibrated dials. The readouts are pretty, but you don't gain much. You get a feel after a while for how well the solder is flowing, whether to add flux or just a bit of fresh solder - or whether to turn the temp up "a bit". :) It's generally safer for components to run the iron hot and keep it on the joint for a shorter time. Too hot and the flux boils away too early to do its job though. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Thanks. The link is meant to be this Do I upload that whole ZIP? I suspect not, but in that case which of its files do I extract, re-zip & then upload please? John Edited 2022-03-20 02:59 by JohnS |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315 |
Unzip the outer file then drag the enclosed zip onto the JLC site where specified - that's it done  |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Ah, found the thread - thanks, that worked. John |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
A quick update on the Pimoroni VGA demo board. After checking it runs Doom OK, I used du pont wires to wire it as a PicoMiteVGA, and it works so far (I need to do more testing, but gives a display on a VGA monitor, and I can type MMBasic commands etc via (Linux command) screen /dev/ttyACM0). Obviously far from ideal but no soldering needed and I didn't have to wait for JLCPCB etc LOL John Edited 2022-03-22 07:15 by JohnS |
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