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I'm having trouble soldering cable to these connectors with lead free solder. What's the optimum temperature setting for the iron with lead free solder or any tips to do it? Thanks  | ||
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Hi MHKU Info taken from a wiki on solder, hope it helps The two most common alloys are 60/40 Sn/Pb which melts at 370 °F or 188 °C and 63/37 Sn/Pb used principally in electrical work Most lead-free replacements for conventional Sn60/Pb40 and Sn63/Pb37 solder have melting points from 5–20 °C higher[citation needed], though solders with much lower melting points are available I dont have any tips ( sorry ) or hints as I have never used it, still got plenty of the old stuff Regards gsteigwiler | ||
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This is usually given for mass production soldering equipments. In your case, you are doing a manual soldering so the specification would be different, and not given. But you would need between 25-40 degrees centigrade higher than the leaded solder. Just be careful the plastic doesn't deform with excessive heating, | |||
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: DM7020S ~ DM500s ~ sg2100 ~ Gemini If he were not a wizard, from head down to the root, you would have got to worry-your DB only boots | Cheers for the replies. I couldn't even tin the bloody cable with lead-free  Will try again next week. And I'll try to find the little bit of leaded I still have somewhere... | ||
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