soldering

My friend has a broken blue snowball microphone and its powers by a mini USB cable plugged into a computer, the mini USB connector somehow broke off the board and has been rattling around its casing, I opened it up and found where its supposed to be connected, is this saveable? could I just...

Well to start i am in no way an electrician or an engineer. Lol I'm just an old ironhead, im a ironworker and my hobby is electronics but I'm always working in the software side but as of lately I been dabling in the hardware side and got a soldering iron and everything needed with it I havnt...

Hi there, I have been working on an AM radio test generator. It is from the book ”building your own transistor radios”. I would provide a schematic of the circuit although I believe the copyright would prevent me from doing so. The two ICs used in the circuit are the 74HC14 hex Schmidt...

I'm working on a DIY project where I need to control some 9V solenoid valves with an arduino. I don't have the tools to make a PCB myself, so i choosed to work on perfboards. Now, I have to connect power supply (MeanWell ) to the step down regulator (Polou D36V50F9) that powers the solenoid...

I'm simply trying to learn and practice soldering and desoldering. I have an old board i am working on and can't for the life of me get ANY of the components off. I can't even get the solder to melt. Do they use something other than solder during manufacturing? Here is a picture. I have...

So guys the display ribbon cable on my JVC KD-AVX44 went bad, and I was wondering if I can find something similar, or if it's just a proprietary cable, that only JVC uses. It's a 24 pin ribbon cable with a regular termination on one side, but on the the other it's split into two 12 pin...

Quarantine project: Adapting a Sony BFV-20W viewfinder Scroll down to skip the background info As a cinematographer, I've always really felt most comfortable shooting with a viewfinder. However modern electronic viewfinders all exist in the "prohibitively expensive" class of filmmaking...

Is there a way to salvage this part of the board with soldering? When I was trying to unplug the connector that was attached to this board, I accidentally pulled the whole thing off (connector and it's 'housing', instead just the connector). So as you can see the part where the arrow points to...