How To Solder Really Small Wires

Pre tin the pads as well.

How to solder really small wires. Heat the iron and flow solder on the iron tip and the wrapped wire and get solder on the thinner wire sticking out. Solid wire can be used with flux added by a brush a bottle dispenser or a pen dispenser. If the wire is stranded use your fingers to twist the strands together.

Make sure to hold the iron on the surface only for a few seconds. If you do it right you get a big melted bead ON the iron but with the wires running through the middle of it. You could also twist them before soldering to increase mechanical strength.

Install the shrink wrap first solder the wires then slide the wrap to cover the solder shrink the wrap with a flame careful the wrap can shrink too much and split open then you will need to start over. Unless a very specific flux is required that is not available as a wire solder core flux core wire solder is generally recommended. Video shows how to solder small wires together and solder a wire to a small solar panel.

Using assisting hands or another form of clamp device is recommended for this process. Clean the tip then tin the wire. When joining 2 larger gauge multi-strand wires together I normally spread the strands first and push the 2 wires together head to head then twist them so they dont come off easily.

If you were here I could have it done for you in a few minutes but we all need to learn. Hold the two tinned wires on top of each other and touch the soldering iron to both wires. Best thing is to arrange the wires and bend them around to where the ends lay on each other but not quite perfectly straight so theyre in kindof alittle X.

If you can heat it to solder melting temps faster then you can touch and go and use less heat over-all. How to Solder Two Small Wires - YouTube. The wires are so small that the solder doesnt really stick so what you have to do is as quickly as possible melt the solder onto the iron but with the joint DIRECTLY in the middle of the two.