Soldering Nickel Plated Copper

scottiebabe over 3 years ago

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Jan Cumps over 3 years ago +4

There's a trick to deal with this type of wires: preheat the join with the iron, usual temperature put solder on the wire, near the landing pad and close to where the iron touches it. let that…
Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to scottiebabe +4

Sounds like the nickel plated kind. They really don't behave like normal stranded wire. You have to lure the solder in like the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
rsjawale24 over 3 years ago +4

I think the large copper plane is also taking up the heat from the soldering iron. Just a small copper pad and a higher temperature may help. I would have tried scraping off the nickle from the wire before…

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0 Jan Cumps over 3 years ago
There's a trick to deal with this type of wires:

preheat the join with the iron, usual temperature

put solder on the wire, near the landing pad and close to where the iron touches it.

let that solder transfer more heat, more efficiently

then put solder on the other side of the wire, also close to the pad. The solder sucks itself towards the iron, and that creates a wet join

This works easiest in a through-hole setting, but the capillary action also works in your setting.
When the mounting pad is as big as your example, a preheater can help, so that the little poor iron doesn't have to do all that heating by itself.
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0 Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to scottiebabe

Sounds like the nickel plated kind. They really don't behave like normal stranded wire. You have to lure the solder in like the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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0 Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to scottiebabe

extreme off topic: Hameln isn't crazy far from here.

I drove half the distance a weekend ago (also to Germany, but a bit more south) to go watch volcanos and the Moesel and Rhine river with my <3. And served in the army not too far from there in cold war times.
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0 Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to scottiebabe

We now know Canada's nuclear code. Cold War PostIt
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0 Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to scottiebabe

We now know Canada's nuclear code. Cold War PostIt
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