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Hey everyone,
I bought today my first welding (soldering-ill be using soldering) iron. I have soldered before in a class i had, but i dont know anything about the irons.
It happens i was cruising downtown today and saw a tools shop, and decided to see soldering irons. Without knowing much, i bought a 60W one. Problem is, i done some testing with another LD i had here, and i notice the iron was soooo hot, so i just went like on/off with it, to get a lower temperature.
but after doin all that, i came to the forum and hit the famous search button above, revealing people usually use irons from about 15w to 25w or even 30w...
As the diode i soldered was <5mW, i wanted to know how a dead LD light looks like (i tried to search but i couldnt find any topic clear enough, as lots of threads have people stating their LD is dead/killed/died. As i dont want to mess up with my PHR when it gets here, as im goin to connect everything and then turn it on on the dorcy.
im also thinking to go to the store again and get a 40w iron that was being sold there as well...they were pretty cheap, thats why i dont bother buying that one.
thanks for everything (hope i wont bother people too much).
Should i buy that ur can i stick with the 60w one without any problem?
I bought today my first welding (soldering-ill be using soldering) iron. I have soldered before in a class i had, but i dont know anything about the irons.
It happens i was cruising downtown today and saw a tools shop, and decided to see soldering irons. Without knowing much, i bought a 60W one. Problem is, i done some testing with another LD i had here, and i notice the iron was soooo hot, so i just went like on/off with it, to get a lower temperature.
but after doin all that, i came to the forum and hit the famous search button above, revealing people usually use irons from about 15w to 25w or even 30w...
As the diode i soldered was <5mW, i wanted to know how a dead LD light looks like (i tried to search but i couldnt find any topic clear enough, as lots of threads have people stating their LD is dead/killed/died. As i dont want to mess up with my PHR when it gets here, as im goin to connect everything and then turn it on on the dorcy.
im also thinking to go to the store again and get a 40w iron that was being sold there as well...they were pretty cheap, thats why i dont bother buying that one.
thanks for everything (hope i wont bother people too much).
Should i buy that ur can i stick with the 60w one without any problem?