Re: LCR recommendations?
Just a general tip that has helped me, I bought a flux pen, its a felt tip marker with flux. For soldering SMT components Just apply it to the spot & pads, the flux helps hold the part to the board
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Chuck Smyder <nflgun@...>
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#88755
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Re: LCR recommendations?
I thought I'd also mention picking up one of these some time back when I was in a bind, did not have a lot of extra funds, and needed something besides solder wicking and/or solder plungers, neither
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JonI
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#88754
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Tony,? I have used this soldering station for years without a problem? about30-35 dollars on ebay.
937D+ Electric Iron Soldering Station
Paul
Hello Tony,
I wonder if you have changed the type
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Paul Schumacher
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#88753
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Re: LCR recommendations?
I have an old Weller 25 watt soldering iron that has been hanging in there
forever. I've probably had it for 30 years. It does fine. I have found that
it helps when soldering surface-mount devices to
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Zack Widup
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#88752
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Hi Tony,
I ran into the same issue last year when trying to solder some thick gauge wire to XT60 connectors.? My solution was this:
tinyurl.com/4b7anbhj
To my surprise, it's lasted nearly a year
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JonI
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#88751
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Hi,
I have found from time to time I need to remove the tip and use a brass wire brush on the tip AND the part of the soldering tool that mates with it. The oxidation (may look like 'mere'
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Bill Cromwell
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#88750
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Re: LCR recommendations?
I have had the same experience with three Weller soldering units. Sometimes one gets hot enough then not so much. It could be the tip which can be changed although I haven’t tried that since
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Gary W9TD
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#88749
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Hi Tony,
is the iron thermostatically controlled? If so, increasing the voltage may make it heat up quicker, but not make it hotter.
73
Nick
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Nick
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Hello Tony,
I wonder if you have changed the type of solder?
I still use the "hazardous" lead/tin, the later lead-free is not nice to use.
Otherwise maybe someone could recommend a
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Alan G4ZFQ
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#88747
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Tony,? I have to ask where you are getting/got these cheap soldering irons.? I bought one from an ebay seller (Chinese) and one from a supplier here in the USA that said it had a USA power plug on
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Jim Pruitt
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#88746
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Good Morning Group,
Here is a related question concerning building Softrock circuit boards using inexpensive soldering irons. I have been doing such building for lots of years, with hundreds of the
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Tony Parks
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#88745
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Sort of related -
I need to make an attenuator for my FT817 on transmit as a 432 MHz
microwave IF radio. I have the appropriate carbon-film resistors. I
measured them on my NanoVNA to see what they
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Zack Widup
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#88744
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Roland,
Thanks for looking.
It seems whenever meters like the LC-100 are mentioned for use with HF Ls and Cs someone pops up inferring that the few 100s of KHz they use will give wrong readings.
I
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Alan G4ZFQ
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#88743
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Re: LCR recommendations?
Your question prompted me to actually look this up. I own a GW Instek LCR-916 which operates between 100Hz and 100KHz. The manual contains a page-long list of accuracies for different L and C values
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Roland Turner
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#88742
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Re: quick test
Ok,looks like it made it.? Not sure what's up.? I had to change stmp from verizon to aol and, so far, the only way I can get the accounts working again is to go into AOL and use them to generate an
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JonI
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#88741
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quick test
Sorry guys, just a quick test to see if my email makes it to the group.? I don't know what's happening with the Verizon-AOL relationship lately, but about 2/3 of my accounts stopped responding.? Not
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JonI
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#88740
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Re: Nasty TX spurious at LO
That is therefore 50dB below peak which is not an excessive figure.
It is a long time since I tested mine so do not remember my estimate.
My theory was imbalance in internal capacitances. I seem to
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Alan G4ZFQ
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#88739
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Re: Nasty TX spurious at LO
At 1W PEP...
20*log(0.06/20) = -50dBc
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Nick
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Re: Nasty TX spurious at LO
Alan,
tnx for the fast reply.
The -20 dBm is measured with a 200 MHz scope: 60 mVpp sine at ANT -> "true" power and is verified with an R&S FPC1000 Spectrum analyzer.
Mixer works fine, and TX IRR is
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Felix, DB9FN <info@...>
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#88737
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Re: Nasty TX spurious at LO
Felix,
It is normal for the LO to be present at the antenna.
On a RX close by it will seem loud.
It will be present at a low level on TX. How do you measure -20dBm? Below full carrier?
I have never
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Alan G4ZFQ
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#88736
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