Stylish Light Switches

Step 3 Preparing the platter.

The first step in preparing the platters is to make a soldering point on its surface. This is done by sanding a small area on one face of the platter with your rotary tool. Ofcourse the reason for that is to make a scratchy surface suitable to solder.

Now what wire to solder to the platter?

The touch switch has a yellow wire which is a touch sensitive wire. Other wires are black, White, and Red. White and Black wires are the ones to reach the lights. Red and Black wires are connected to the power source. Yes the black wire is connected to both the lights and power source. Look at the schematic image of the touch switch for more elaboration.

Comments

[emerson.john]

 Please get someone else to solder that for you.

[chessy68]

hahah agreed

[rusky]

I would imagine that soldering to the platter isn't exactly easy as it would dissipate the heat too fast!

[emerson.john]

 Several things can be done to make it simple if the platter alloy is not too hard (softer Al alloys are easier to solder). 1) remove the plating, as he did. 2) heat platter from opposite side with heat gun and tin the exposed surface where the plating was removed. 3) With heat gun still keeping things hot, solder the wire (after tinning it) to the platter using a soldering gun, 150 watts or so. Easiest of all would be to heat the platter from the back with a torch and use a good organic paste flux in addition to the rosin core solder. 

[bo3bo3]

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[emerson.john]

 That was a very good instructable, by the way. A clever idea, and I do see your reasoning about preserving the finish on the front side. Using a heat gun would not have marred the finish - it's just heated air, and would not damage the plating. A torch would probably discolor it, which would ruin it for your application.

[jewbare]

Nice soldering job ;) looks like something outta left 4 dead.