+Nicholas DeLessio I'm laughing so hard TY! I'm twitching now myself!!! The joy of painting with crack........:)

That explains why EEVblog give me ASMR sensations.

It is very very inspiring indeed, really brings across how much fun in fact there really is in doing electronics :-)

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"Now let's just add in a happy little solder joint... There"

Wow! You have a real life wire stretcher!

I thought I was the only one who did this! lol

@@mikestribling7574 Great! You're the only other person I know of who also said they discovered that trick!😃

@@mondo_burrito Lol. I don't remember this video or leaving this comment so I'd say chances are high.

+Johnny Codemunch I'm such an electronics noob myself, and have very little knowledge of components, soldering, schematics and DC designs; yet for the past 2 weeks of viewing almost every single video on Dave's channel, it's inspired me to spend over £600 (GBP) on a mini electronics lab so far, and I'm still buying stuff for it. You can learn so much from this channel. The advice is fantastic, the content is informative, the guides are understandable, the knowledge gained is insane. Even for a newcomer. You can start from nothing and end up with such a vast array of electronics design/engineering knowledge from just viewing Dave's videos and the EEV Blog forum. Finally starting a project on creating a homemade DC power supply, thanks to this channel

+Kyle247l I too have just restarted playing with electronics again at the age of 71. The problem is I keep buying bits, then view his videos, only to learn that what I have bought is utter, utter garbage.

Cliff Woolston aha. Same here. Terrible solder, terrible flux, terrible desoldering braid, and a plug-in iron, while using an actual heat gun as a rework tool, but I'm only 20 years old right now, and I made these mistakes at 15 years old. We all learn from our mistakes though!

+Cliff Woolston At least if it's utter garbage you don't have to be careful when using it.

я тоже охуел! fuck

+Greg D I was thinking that I could land a helicopter on those pads. I'm used to doing ultra-fine pitch stuff you need to do under a microscope.

+Andrew the Celt do you hold the iron with your hand or like a robot and joy stick?

nicholas feltman by hand. With practice you can do components with 10mil leads

But can Michael Fox solder that? That's the question.

@@andrewthecelt3794 would you say 0805 is doable if one has never smd soldered before? (seeing the size of these things i'm kinda worried i wont be able to make ut without practicing a ton first?)

LOL

LOL... well spotted (or.. Heard)

Kissed his wife, are you crazy? He kissed the soldering station, of course!

@@JC-wh7jj nope . Kissed the soldering iron tip. Way hotter than the wife 😅 😂

+Kentrt lots most are a minimum of 800f

The peak temp in our oven is set at 245 ºC most components are rated at 260 nowadays. That's lead free process. Offcourse when soldering by hand there's a thing called temperature shock but that never appears to be a problem. The most sensitive are the electrolites which are sometimes rated at 240 something then you need a special oven program to solder them. Sometimes we use 'hats' made of kapton tape to shield the elco's a bit. Some time ago there was an order containing those really old philips rectangular flat lying electrolites at the lead free temp those things popped like popcorn.

And sometimes some electrolites are soldered by hand afterwards but it's getting more rare thankfully.

Morahman7vnNo2 Thanks!

Some types need to be cleaned up after soldering, but most of them evaporates perfectly leaving no appreciable rosin layer. They are called no-clean types.

Péter Kiss thanks for that tip! I'm new to this and the idea of cleaning flux off a pcb with water and an esd brush really scares me

You should do that with pure alcohol (denaturated ethil) instead of water.

aha! thanks again Péter Kiss

neppy5 It depends. Usually not but if you need to conformal your pcb then you will need to remove the flux residue. No clean fluxes still leave a residue that can be cleaned off for a better conformal coating. Most hobby boards will not need conformal coating.

it is "videos", v - i - d - e - o - s.

Yeah, that was two years ago. Now I spell correctly. :D

It is infective. I got british from that. Took me several minutes to cure that off.

+Len P ..he's Australian

Jordan Johnson, I know. And you are one of these independence guys?

like "linus tech tips"... after somes mintues i must stop the video ah ah

psoriasisman I don't drink coffee.

psoriasisman Don't be an ass. This is a good video, and the accent is cool.

Rod T. Dont Drink Coffe

psoriasisman cause then you´ll get psoriasis.

tnpsegim dont drink soda

Basileus s I thought I was the only one that realized this, glad somebody else did as well.

The camera was in his way, no doubt.

Dick Smith Funway kits REALLY opened up the scene to people back in that era, from young kids right through to adults. Started to dabble with the Jaycar kits later on down the track but when everything became PIC this and PIC that, I began to lose interest since you could no longer build something without programming it first.

I would disagree. The chisel tip is right for the soic8 as it heats both the leg and the pad simultaneously. The 'well' (or wave) tip is perfect for the fine pitch IC. I think you may also be being tricked by the magnification.

Ian Montgomery The tip used to solder a pic24fj256ga106-i/pt 64 pin (each pin has 0.22 mm )must be as shown in the link lines below 1/64" conical tip to avoid jointed leads on the SMD PIC: paceworldwide.com/products/tips-and-nozzles/soldering-iron-tips/ps90-tips/ps90-soldering-tips/164-in-conical-tip-357. Mi comment is due to I saw when you´re are soldering the PIC and 2 leads are jointed with solder (min 20:20) Regards!!!

eduarsan1 We use wave/well tips (these have a 4.5mm well) for QFP hand soldering (we usually use a placement machine except for protos) or alternatively we will use hot air. If you have a lot of flux over the leads you wish to solder then the job becomes easier.

***** I agree with you. Reflow should lessen the prospect of heat damage to components too.

Ian Montgomery This is defenetly not a resoldering process. The reflow soldering is a defined process where you use a soldering paste and an ofen to solder the components to their soldering pads. When you use a soldering iron it's not a reflow soldering, even if the soldering tin is liquid again. Use google if you don't trust me. You will not find any description with a soldering iron and soldering tin (manual solder) using the word "reflow". The reflow process uses low temperatures to protect the components from getting to hot.

***** I guess part of the reason is that the ovens used for SMD lines are called reflow ovens so people associate reflow only with SMD.

Martin B. Our reflow oven hits 250C for a very short time.

Yes, might be. Some components (or materials) need higher temperatures than others.

Wrong lol

This is an "Crazy Aussie Bloke" and so he "has to talk much and crazy" :D It's his habit and "trademark" of these videos :) If you don't like it, there are tons of "serious" and "sad" video tutorials out there ;) Once I saw the first EEV video I also thought "what the...." but then it became funny :D Especially the parts where he breaks something accidently or turn something apart.

TheThore Yes I agree with You, but i still watched the videos, D is very savy and yes also very funny. the point is, sometimes he talkes too much about obvious stuff that really yields to boring. I also appreciate signalpath blog, mjlorton and my best fav. w2aew. thanx.

Yes sometimes I fast forward a part, too :D But the "Bloke" is funny and educational. I may check the others out you mentioned. Thank you.

MY GOD!! Your comments are sooooooooo meaningless..

tnpsegim if you were an EE you probably would understand what my comments meant.