Hello,
Like the title says, I'm going nuts with my tri cree. I've been trying to solder my wires on it, but, they won't stick. I've tried so much that I think I fried my LED.
Any pointers in what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you,
Eric
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Hello,
Like the title says, I'm going nuts with my tri cree. I've been trying to solder my wires on it, but, they won't stick. I've tried so much that I think I fried my LED.
Any pointers in what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you,
Eric
They are tricky. The heatsink works well.
Try using leaded solder. A good pre-tinned solder tip a bit hotter than usual. Also try pre-heating and tinning the wire tip.
I don't have seperate flux, I only use the finest rosin core I can find.
I hope you didn't burn it out by heat alone. They aren't cheap.
Thanks, I kept my soldering iron at 475F.
I will try and get some leaded solder. I don't know the type that I have honestly.
Hopefully, you don't already have it attached to the heatsink.
That would be my first guess. If you've already attached it to the heatsink, it'll be nearly impossible to solder wires onto the LED pads.
I run my iron at around 550F when I'm doing most of my work.
Oh wow, I was scared going hotter than 450F. I though I was "ballsy" at 475F.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silver Serpent
And it's not attached to the heat sink. It's in a plastic covered clamp.
Nah. Back when the LEDEngin LEDs were all the rage, I'd bump mine up over 600 to solder those. Those LED stars had a great heatsink built in, and it was nearly impossible to solder them without a really hot iron.
It's a bit counterintuitive, but a hotter iron is LESS likely to burn your components. Since the iron is hotter, you spend less time with it touching your components. There's actually less heat damage that way.
Managed to get everything soldered.
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