drummer4lifex

So, I've been out of the game a while, and I was finally getting to setting my desktop up again. Well, I like to sleeve cables, and I made the mistake of taking the molex connector off my danger den d5 and forgetting that the red wire in fact matches up with the yellow wire on the PSU. So, I had red matched with red and couldn't figure out at all why it wouldn't work. So I started taking the sleeving off, you know, compulsively disassembling everything angrily until I pulled a bit too hard and broke the soldering. I did some research, matched the wires up right, and realized that my pump works but now I just have to resolder it. I'd prefer to leave it connected so I'm wondering, since it's been ages since I've soldered, what the best way to go about this is. I'm willing to bet I'm going to have to disconnect it from the loop, won't I? Would that cold heat soldering gun be of any use?




the terminals are circled where I need to resolder

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Retrospekt

You could probably do it with very steady hands and a good solder. I would just disconnect it to make things easier.

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PoisonTail

use a small 15 watt solder iron u dont want to burn up anything

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CrazyJoe

Disconnecting the pump from the loop would make it easier to solder, but it's not really necessary so long as you can get to the solder points.

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markkleb

the cold soldering iron sucks.
Usually when I solder on printed circut boards I tin the wire and also the contact with freash solder, than I just touch them together and heat for a sec.
Remember keep the tip clean or it will take a long time to heat up the joint (possibly overheating the board and causing damage)

ira-k

^^^ He pretty well said it all...Thats the way I do mine to, tinning your wires and keeping you tip clean can be the difference between a job well done or a mess....

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perfect answer....

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tatted_taz

If you have access to a cold heat soldering tool by all means use it. I have in the past and let me tell you, it made everything alot easier, not to mention took the screw up factor out.

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