Hi all, just a quick introduction. I'm an IT professional by trade but love to tinker with things as well as grill/smoke meat. So Naturally, when I came upon this website I was in heaven. Did all my research and ended up buying the kit (along with a bunch of other stuff...including a 3d printer ) which came the other day. Here is where the failure started. I have done some soldering in the past, but nothing major. Spend the majority of the day soldering this thing up, plugged it in...and nothing. Started looking at my solders and noticed there were spots that I may have bridged the solder onto another component. Did my best to try and clean everything up but still no dice. At this point, I think I just need to re-order/start all over from scratch. One question, the soldering iron I purchased off Amazon is a 40 watts and gets up to 900F (with no means to control the temperature). Is this too hot? I'm thinking maybe I fried some of the components by using this iron. Being a beginner, what temp should I be soldering at?
Any advise would be appreciated. Looking forward to starting over and in the mean time I can mess with my 3d printer
Oh, and thanks to everyone that has made this possible. This really is some next level cool stuff!
Any advise would be appreciated. Looking forward to starting over and in the mean time I can mess with my 3d printer
Oh, and thanks to everyone that has made this possible. This really is some next level cool stuff!