The Wind-up Headboard Reading Light

Step 7 Solder the LED wires to the Flashlight Board

Before I soldered the lamp wires to the board, I sort of laid the board against my base so I could pick the two contacts closest to the base. Then I soldered the red wire to the positive contact, and the black wire to the negative.

As mentioned before, I learned the little know about soldering from other instructablesother instructables and from some of the engineers at work. My preferred method is to put the tip of the iron against the end of the wire-to-be-attached to heat it up (I think this is called 'tinning'), then hold it against the solder wire and get a good looking bead of molten solder, then lower that bead down on the target wire and contact.

Anyhoo, the contacts on this board were very close together, and my blobs and beads kept connecting to each other. I'm pretty sure that would cause a problem, so I kept at it until I had two separate blobules.

Also, the metal part of the soldering iron that leads to the tip is just as hot as the tip. Not good times.

Comments

[Kryptonite]

Hello, In step 7 you wrote "other instructable" twice, one being a link and one that's just normal. Update iminant? Any way, I'd advise to keep away from that nasty metal part, as you may have found, OW! It left a nasty burn on my finger, the first time I tried soldering.