Learning Soldering for Electronics

Course details

In an electronic product such as a cell phone, toy, or automobile, electronic components are attached using solder, a metal compound that melts at a low-enough temperature to be able to be worked by hand or machine. Whether you are prototyping a new product, manufacturing a product at scale, or working on a project in your spare time, you will need to learn how to solder in order to create the electrical and mechanical connections that make it all work. In this course, learn about the tools and techniques needed to make great solder connections. Plus, get troubleshooting tips, including how to fix a cold solder joint and repair a mistake in a PCB.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Solder for electronic products and manufacturing
02 - What you need to know about soldering electronics

1. Setting Up Your Workbench for Soldering

03 - Set up a safe work environment when soldering
04 - Basic hand tools used when soldering electronics
05 - What to look for when buying a soldering iron
06 - Available soldering Iron accessories
07 - Secure your work for better connections

2. Making Connections with Solder

08 - Types of solder used in soldering electronics
09 - The importance of the various available fluxes used in soldering
10 - Set up a new soldering iron
11 - How to make secure connections between wires
12 - How to solder wires to electronic components

3. Soldering through Hole Components

13 - Solder an LED into a PCB
14 - Solder a standard resistor into a PCB
15 - Solder a standard capacitor into a PCB
16 - PCB design files
17 - Ordering a PCB and components
18 - Identify and order components
19 - Identification of part and the board
20 - Soldering complex components with lots of pins
21 - How to solder heavy-duty components
22 - Clean up your solder connections

4. Surface Mount Soldering

23 - First steps when soldering a surface mount component
24 - Solder a surface mount component with a soldering iron
25 - Use a solder stencil for applying solder paste
26 - Solder a surface mount component with a hot air rework station

5. How to Fix Mistakes

27 - Too much solder on a through hole component
28 - Too little solder on a through hole component
29 - Fixing a cold solder joint
30 - Fix a disturbed solder joint
31 - Remove a through hole component
32 - What to do when you have too much solder on surface mount component
33 - How to remove a surface mount integrated circuit
34 - Repair a mistake in a PCB

Conclusion

35 - Things you can do after you learn to solder

Learning Soldering for Electronics

Authors

Marc de Vinck