Thank you for the various hints and introduction to some new products.

Actually, he's correct. I run workshops where beginners solder their first kits, and this is soldering 101. For "advanced" I'd expect to see soldering of surface mount components, soldering QFP and TSOP packages, solder paste/masking, hot air rework and reflow, etc. None of those are at all outside the realm of the hobbyist.

The tip on the left at 0:52 is a chisel tip. The bevel tip is on the right, aka "hoof" tip

I wish I'd seen this when I was first learning to solder. Would have saved me a lot of trouble!

this is so satisfying to watch. I never really soldered that much at work but definitely looking to built my expertise on this trade skill.

Surface mount projects and soldering would be an interesting/advanced offering from SparkFun

4:00 A better idea here would be to use a few breadboards or even an apparatus like in Big Clive's videos where he solders hundreds of LEDs on a board in one go. It's especially important when you're dealing with pins that need to line up, you really don't want the thing to move while you're tack soldering.

Good video, Joel. I've done a fair bit of SMD soldering (and even more PTH work), butI still found this video very useful. Please keep up the great tutorials.

Very informative and keep it up

Useful video! Perfect for beginners!

I learned how to solder the Bell System Way ( AT&T). You would apply the iron to the connection, keeping the iron on the lug you would move the tip of the iron so you could apply solder to it and then press it up agaisnt the lug to solder the connection. I thought this was really crazy, so I'd do it my way when the instructor wasn't looking.

Very useful.

nice video! thanks!

It isnt that i expected smd soldering, i find it strange that a video is named advanced, yet no advanced techniques are demonstrated. Especially since a led is almost destroyed with the soldering iron and the solder dragging is highly discouraged since it can easily damage the pads...

Thumbs up mate. Good you're not wasting any time by talking too slow..... lol Highly informative! Good to get old skills back.

thank you very much ;)

R.I.P. WS2811, Your color will shine bright in Heaven.

Helpful.

Holy crap way to melt the crap out of that LED. What a great example for beginners...

Thank you for the video but I didn't find what I was looking for. For the past hour now I've been looking for information on how to make working circuits on a generic printed bread boards. Is the only way to connect the components, once they are soldered to the bread board is to form a melted stream on solder from one point to a another point? And if so... will that method work on all printed bread boards. This only concerns bread boards that don't already have a designed layout which then all thats needed to solder the parts on.

That is how the people in the US say it. Local dialect. Neither right nor wrong, that is just how it happens to be said here.

did anyone notice he nearly destroyed the LED on the left at 2:14

They sell kits that let you practice these skills exactly.

I guess either I dont solder enough, else buy Ersa solder irons. I never experienced a damage tip, not even a little bit.

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Pretty sure they use PB Free solder...

lead free solder creates hole on leaded soldering irons!

jesus, replace that tip.

Very Dirty solder tip; poor solder joint. Tip should be bright and shiny with solder. Try a tiny drop of liquid rosin on pad before soldering.

If you are using 'advanced' just to have a nice title, then just say so. I would understand because there are over a million '101 soldering tutorials' on youtube, but dont bullshit me please.

Not me

slopes are sometimes indicated by colors, but i was refering to the indication by level which is done often enough. It doesnt make any sense to call this advanced and looking at the likes of my first comment I think most people agree.

You should go there and work then, since you clearly know everything there is to know about soldering. I'm sure they would be happy to have an expert on staff.

No need to be that aggressive. Advanced isnt relative to skillset at all by the way. Ski slopes for example are often graded in basic, intermidiate and advanced as well and they arent relative to individual skier skillsets either. Techniques like bringing the solder to the heated joint and not from the soldering iron to the joint are basic skills. The other techniques like desoldering or using soldering wick are considered basic as well.

these techniques arent exactly 'advanced' but basic or intermediate at most...

no, he isnt even talking about smd techniques, not even so, tsop or 1206 components so it is far from advanced.

1:52 don't do this. Use flux.

Solder suckers suck. Those are probably more useful for playing with a woman's nips than removing solder.

Oh lovely! That also seems to be a non regulated iron, hence why the joints all look like crap. Sorry Sparkfun, this isn't helpful.. Though, i have been soldering since i was 6.. I'm 21 now.

Why can't Americans pronounce solder? The "l" isn't silent.

Not me