Most FPV pilots need to watch this soldering tutorial
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-- TABLE OF CONTENTS --
0:00 - Intro
1:09 - MuteFPV solder practice board is amazing!!!!
Learn more about the MuteFPV Solder Practice board (and order yours) at: • The Ultimate Soldering...
2:42 - How to pick a good soldering iron
5:09 - How to choose the best solder for FPV
6:31 - Flux is incredibly important!
10:57 - Clean your iron with a brass sponge (not sandpaper!)
13:00 - How to choose the right style of iron tip
16:20 - What temperature to set your iron to?
23:17 - What does a healthy clean soldering iron tip look like
27:05 - Correct technique for soldering
31:35 - How to prep wire for soldering
37:39 - Trim wire to the correct length
39:52 - How to complete the solder joint (dry fit is critical!)
41:29 - What does a good vs. bad solder joint look like
47:52 - Conclusion
This is one of the best solder tutorials I have ever seen. It has lots of magnified views of what happens in the joint when you solder, as well as a bunch of information that I left out of this high-level how-to:
• How to Solder Electronics
Ok this is your chance. What did I get wrong and/or leave out?
I checked out the link provided to order this practice board but on his channel he provides a link to a mamba practice board.
@@msaunders300 might be cheaper? Or sold out atm
A big warning not to eat the solder with lead in it ;-)
Talk about solder fumes?
Do not ever apply flux directly to the tip. Yes I found out the hard way. It makes the solder not stick to the tip
Remember when you could walk into Radioshack with a list of resistors, transistors and capacitors, and the guy behind the counter would come back with it all in 5 minutes?
yup I was needing a 2.2uf capacitor the other day and had to wait 3 days to get it instead of just walking in a shop that day :( i miss tandy in the UK.
not only do I remember those days, I remember where it was all set up at and which drawer and bin it was stored in... spent way too much time and money in that store...
I was one of those guys during college. “Force feed” was the term for mindlessly stacking groups of 19 cent resistors, capacitors, etc. on the wall pegs. We used to tell the new “managers in training” that the manager would love when folks volunteered for force feed. And since we were on commission, while that guy would restock, others would sell.
Actually had some fun times…
Remember going in as a kid in Marvel at all those components. Later at about age 10 going in to purchase parts for my CB radio to hit new frequencies. Ahhh those were the days...
Yep Terminal Insanity and yep Gary Garland I was one of those guys who worked there too. My friend and I would hang out like nerds there when we were younger, except we were the badass nerds. I would ride my Indian Enduro bike there when younger and my buddy and I would write clones of games on the "Tandy CoCo 3" 128k computer (I preferred my Ti99-4/A at home, it had an asynchronous sprite chip and 3 voice sound chip and super fun speech synthesizer!).
So when I was a senior in highschool I asked for a job there which they instantly gave me. Did the forcefeed and the whole 9 yards. OMG the commission was really good at that time, something like 12%?!?! I ended up being the number one salesman in New England for most of the time because I sold a lot of the high ticket items like the computers and car stereos. I used to bring home checks of like $3000 a week (!!!!!) there during spring and fall. For a kid who graduated at 16 that was a killer job. And my boss was a lot of fun. He was in his 30s and jealous haha when my 'babes' would stop by to kiss me haaa. And during Christmas the customers all knew me and would hand me their 💳 credit card and say, "hey I need gifts for 3 hs aged grandkids and 2 young ones." Of course I would grab computers or $120 RC trucks for them. They loved me. Christmas shopping done! At Christmas 🎄 I would bring home $4000 to $6000 paychecks, then head over to the Radio shack in the mall and work from 6 to 10pm and make gobs of money 💰.
Loved working there until I got good software development contracts and made too much money doing that.
My young wife spent it all haha. But that place did rock in the 80's.... Fun to shop there and great working there 😜
This was the most thorough soldering tutorial I've ever seen. I've pointed my daughter to this video (she's majoring in Computer Engineering, so will be living with a soldering iron in her hand from now on). I've ordered a stack of the practice boards for her and I to work on while we fine tune our skills. Take this $10 and buy a coffee or a burger, and rest in the knowledge that you did a great job.
Thank you.
Glad it helped!
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"always keep a clean tip guys!" -Joshua Bardwell. This needs to be a t-shirt!
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And Steele advises to always wet the tip in his soldering vids.
@@kurtzFPV in contrast to Jushua, Steele can at least solder 🤣
I have a spool of Kester “44”I purchased back in the 60’s. It’s .015” dia. Very thin and perfect for my type of work. Back then I was building my own Digital Radio Control Systems, from scratch. Here I am 75 and still building models and electronics gear. For what its worth, Joshua is giving you the very best, clear and well proven advice available here on the web.
I thought I was one of the old dude here but at 65, I feel young :)
Don't do much soldering anymore, so I will have to practice before I solder my FC/ESc combo as my hands are not as steady
@@JDDupuy my bones are OK (most of them), but my hands are shaky at times and I would not be surprise if I solder 5 pas in one shot.
Awesome, i hope im still doing this in 20 years. i use to bug mum ,please take me to buy another electronics kit so i can build whatever...first thing somewhere mid 70s built my first fm radio. i was soooo happy when it tuned to a station , so was mum. God bless yall. from sth aussie.
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This tutorial is probably one of the best FPV soldering tutorials I have ever seen.
MuteFPV has been consistently creating high quality fpv-related content. He is a great assett to the fpv community!
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Thank you very much, you taught me how to solder. I haven't learned how to clean tin yet. I will be soldering onto a neatly thin wire. I respect you.
Who else could watch this for hours Evan though been soldering for 6 years 😂
I've been soldering at least 35 years and I still enjoyed it. It is always a joy to watch a professional at work, and there is always something still to learn. Once you stop believing that, you have put a cap on your ability to improve.
Me me
@@timlong7289 if I remember correctly I have to add 3 more years to your 35, I was 10 when I started
really good video, I enjoy it
Hi
I've been in the fpv hobby for a couple years now. I have not done a complete build yet. I have limited time, so I tend to use bnf's ,buttttt I have had to solder to do repairs on quads. I have struggled alot, but have gotten better. This video pretty much covers every issue I've had soldering. Thank you for a great tutorial. Showing the incorrect moves is as much or more important. It helps us recognize when and how we screwed up. Then you showed us how to make it right ... thank you JB!
Joshua has to be one of the most pleasant, calm and easy going fellas Ive seen.
I soldered electronics professionally for almost 10 years and this is a fantastic tutorial. A few things I would add:
1. Just like tinning, when you solder the final joint, you want all the metal to get to temp and heat the solder evenly. On small connections it's not a big deal, but on that larger ESC wire/pad this technique becomes more necessary. Always apply the iron to the larger piece of metal. Nothing worse than a cold solder joint.
2. Get yourself a set of "third hands" cheap stands with alligator clips and a magnifying glass. Soldering iron on the bench doesn't work in all cases.
3. Solder sucker. Worth it!
4. Setup, setup, setup for that final joint. Get all the components secure (third hand for wire, rubber vise for board), magnifying glass in place, iron hot, flux on. Then apply heat. Rookie mistakes happen and other components get damaged when a solder joint is rushed or bunged up due to the PCB sliding around the table.
Gotta get that set of helping hands with a LED lighted magnifying glass and some FUN-TAK. I use silver solder it was 25 bucks for a 1/4lb worth it.
does cold solder cause the ripped pads? I tried soldering a few whoop 25x25 aio from happymodel and geprc. more than twice, the pads got ripped by small force in the 30awg soldered wire. Could it be cold solder or too much heat during solder? or the pad is weak and manufacturing issue? Thank you.
@@jeffclassics it can, yes. If you think the solder is flowing (in liquid form) but it is actually cooled, and then you apply upward force, it can rip the pad off. As JB explained, it can also happen with too much heat.
I see a lot of guys just putting flux on the pad and letting a drop of solder fall on it, they say there is no problem?? they're gold plated aren't they? I try to heat the whole thing up till it all flows nice.
@@embededfabrication4482 it's all easy on those F7 fcs with a lot of uarts and big pads. for AIO whoops, pads are very tiny, cramped etc that it's very easy to rip. I have accidentally destroyed 3 aios by far, but not f4 stacks, F405s and F7s
" F A H R E N H E I T "
I love the humor you consistently have in your vids. Makes me come back to watch them more than once. 😂
I'm just getting into FPV and I'm on a mission to learn everything from scratch and build me own quad. You sir are by far the best teacher I've seen for builds and these topics. Thank you so much and keep up the fantastic work Joshua! Cheers brother!
How did ur journey go
@@BabyKnxckz Had to take a step back and focus on other things due to financial situations :(
@@BenAmaralkeep goin brother
Same! I'm eating up videos and forum posts like there was no tomorrow. Hope I'll remember at least some of it for when the parts arrive.
Enjoyed it Josh. You basically re-hashed all those other soldering TH-camS out there, threw out all the junk ,packaged it in classic JB style so we can understand the brevity of soldering. Love it , keep them coming :)
I haven’t soldered in 15 years but soldering my receiver to my 5” today and came her for the pep talk! Thanks Joshua for all you do for the community! You’ve made this complex hobby so much easier to understand and digest.
OK, you asked for it. ;) Flux removes the oxide layer from the metals that you are soldering (like copper oxide), not the solder. Incidentally, if you are soldering to a gold pad, you don't need flux because gold doesn't form an oxide layer, but the copper wire that you would be attaching would still need it. If you tin the wire first, then you can skip the flux when you solder to the gold pad.
Solder doesn't oxidize.
You would still need flux in space because it is likely that the copper pad was formed in an oxygen atmosphere or was exposed to oxygen at some point before you took it into space. :D
Thanks for the video, it's a great tutorial. :)
You can sand or file a soldering iron tip. It is just a piece of copper coated with solder. That being said, you need to re-tin the tip after. That just entails making sure you get a well adhered layer of solder over the exposed copper by using flux. I have filed many a soldering iron tip in my life. In fact, if you leave flux on your iron at too high a heat setting, you will eat away the copper and will need to file out the pits and holes or replace the tip.
Yes
I've been soldering since I was a kid from watching my dad tinker with electronics. Although I've been getting good results, what you shared here shed light on quite a few things I did NOT know. I definitely 'learned something today!' Thank you.
Learning to solder was my favorite part of getting into FPV. It was VERY empowering, and very satisfying to be able to confidently wire my quad, and make repairs.
The Hakko is by far my best investment in this hobby 😎
I've been doing this for 50+ years and there are plenty of people who are better at this than me. This was an excellent lesson in the art/craft of soldering. Thanks Joshua 👍
PS Don't under tin the wire.
Great Job! I use to teach soldering in the 1980’s when I was in the USAF.
My wife thinks I'm a dork for getting excited about a 50 minute long video on soldering. Thanks for making my Saturday special, JB.
Yeah and getting excited for a make-up video for the 100th time is making her a dork as well. Just in a different sport
Never get tired of watching solder melt and cool. That practice board is pretty awesome!!
Thanks a lot for the video!!! I've been soldering some time now but this showed once again to me how much there is to learn about a topic. Great work!
Thank you so very much for making this video and all the time and efforts to putting this (and all your videos) up for our FPV community, you make such a difference for so many
I was hoping you would mention solder paste for preventing oxidation over the tip of your iron while in storage.. You definitely improved my soldering ability thank you for the video Josh.
Been soldering for years and I still learned something from this video. Toughest solder for me, Ground pads for the main battery...UGH!
Mr. Bardwell never fail at teaching and I'm always learning thanks
I thought I knew how to solder! Apparently I have learned something new today! Thx Joshua!
So, I’ve been soldering for decades…and learned some great stuff. THANK YOU!
Me too!
Thanks for taking the time to make this video Joshua. Much respect for sticking to an idea.
Dude! I can't thank you enough. I've been having such a hard time and now I know what I was doing wrong. Just the tutorial I needed. Thanks again Joshua.
You’re the man Joshua! Great tutorial and I definitely learned something. Actually, I learned a lot today! Thanks again!
Fantastic video!! Been hesitant to solder. This makes it look so much easier than I thought. Thank you!
That's why I love your show. You know your stuff.ive learned a lot from you. Keep up the good work and informative content. Thank you
This was great! Thanks for putting it together. I’ve been soldering for years and picked up several helpful things from the video. The tinning process for the wire and the breakdown of the tips and temperatures were excellent!
Thank you so much for this video. I've soldered for years involving so many projects, and it's nice to see pros like yourself to teach with great detail. I look forward to any future videos
Best soldering tutorial I’ve seen,thanks JB👍
Ooooo, you're brave JB! Soldering is the most divisive thing I've seen in FPV. Almost as bad as if anyone mentions HDZero around a bunch of DJI flyers...
It's all over the reddit. And there are always conficting opinions
Great video. I teach one additional thing to ham students. Clean the tip constantly. Tin / clean / tin / solder / repeat. Also, keep the tip tinned between operations and when stored. That helps make the tip last, and makes them become more aware of how much better a cleaned, tinned tip performs compared to sticking a dry iron to something.
I have seen a lot of soldering tutorials, but this one was really useful. I have been fairly adequate at this for a long time, but I feel this video finally put an end to my 35 year old status as a soldering newbie. I certainly learned something today.
Very helpful, don't be afraid to record long videos. Currently soldering my first project along with this video and it's relaxing to hear in the background.
Awesome man! I just got into the FPV world and you’ve helped me a lot! I appreciate you man.
YES!!! I was trying to teach a classmate who wants to get into fpv how to solder on a old busted esc and he wasnt getting it. I told him to just watch me because for me soldering is all about the feel. its like driving standard you gotta feel whats going on. and though this video wont directly make him a good solderer, it will give him the tools and understanding to become one.
There's never to many solder videos, always place for a refresh and update.. Just when u think u know it all.. u find something new 😊👍👍
Thank you Joshua this has been the most helpful video on soldering that I have ever watched on youtube and you can count on it, I will be getting my old soldering iron out and start back on practicing very soon. This is most helpful ! Thanks for all the time you put into making this video. Just AWESOME !!!!
thanks for even more information about soldering
i „learned“ soldering by watching your build videos but this combines all that skill i’ve learned from you
I owe you so much, You have gotten me outta all kinds of binds, And non bind, Only in FPV!!! love it...
Cheers Joshua! Watched this video over 2 times now, did order a practice board and trying it out as the video is playing. Gonna work out realy well now, I do learn a lot from your video's, thanks bud!
Been soldering “forever,” but always looking for ways to improve. Your videos are comforting to watch, Joshua. I always know that for at least a little while, the world will make sense! 😃🤔👍
I learned to solder as an Air Force mechanic...and the best I could do was a serviceable joint. The breadth of the instruction we received could be distilled down into, "Make the iron hot, put on some flux, and good luck."
Your teaching style, attention to detail, and thoroughness without being burdensome certainly earned a subscriber.
I've not purchased any FPV gear yet but will learn all I can from your channel. Thanks for providing such great information and sharing your knowledge!
Thank you for the kind words.
As an RC and FPV enthusiast, this was fantastic for helping me getting started with Soldering. Thank you!!!!
Thanks for another great video Joshua. I’ve been soldering for 33 years and STILL “learned something today”.
I'm new to the hobby and am still learning how to solder well.
Ain't being able to make all my solderings shiny as I would like and your tutorial addressed some issues that I have to improve.
Keep up the great service you provide to our community 👍.
You're my number 1 teacher for FPV!
this is so helpfull Im gonna watch it several times. You rock Josh!
This continues to be the best tutorial for soldering on TH-cam. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, JB
Perfect way to spend my Sunday coffee. Thank you Joshua.
Nice tutorial. I've learned most of these things the hard way but love watching other's technique to refine my own. Still learning the value of flux, flux, and more flux!
U always gotta wet the tip 👍🏽
my dude, didatic as always. been doing some solder stuff for some years and NEVER I realizes the solder flows to the hotter place. this explains a lot. thank you for your time. the drone community wouldnt be the same without u
Honestly, great video. Well explained, and even to an experienced user, things were mentioned that anyone could improve on. Thanks for all you do JB!
When I first started soldering, I always had cold solders & could never figure out why. So I found your videos on soldering tips (including this one) & has helped me out a lot with my soldering skills. Excellent tutorial Joshua!!
Great vid. Ive been soldering for years and I learned something today.
Just finished my soldering session! Perfect for retrospective) Many thanks!
Amazing tutorial as always. Glad to have a new source to point people too
Thanks 4 making this viD Mr Bardwell, it is very helpful 4 people like me, people who hasn't soldered ever. Wish me luck
I used to watch every video that you came out with as soon as they went live I used to fly a couple times a week I'm still a patreon because I learned so much from you and I believe you're a good teacher and I believe in what you do.
I've been modding Nintendo switches lately and I've had to buy a digital microscope for small up-close soldering and I happened on your video and realized how much I miss the bardwell videos a couple times a week and fpv in general.
Thank you for this because I was actually just looking at these practice boards. Soldering is something I’ve never found the need for until now but I’ve always wanted to..
Thanks a lot! This is a best soldering tutorial I've ever seen. Nobody I've seen explaines about "no smoke, no flux". And more important despite I saw many times how they apply solder to the pad instead of solder iron tip, nobody explaines what this about.
Okay I've lurked long enough.
You have earned my subscription.
To the point,and for the TRUE beginner,this makes it easy.
For someone like me who dabbles in and out,it was a great refresher of what i had forgotten from days of lightsaber building.
Never thought I would ever find a use for all the stuff I bought after I got bored with lightsabers.
I'm getting my first soldering iron in a few days, so this was really useful to watch
Wow! This is the best solder tutorial I have seen for RC Hobby soldering. I retired from a national laboratory and did an awful lot of soldering and had a lot of training including surface mount PACE certifications. I've seen a lot of solder tutorials and videos but yours is the one I want my young grandson to watch. You just did great! Especially showing examples of common mistakes. Joshua, sir; I SALUTE YOU! THANK YOU!
Seen a fair few tutorials now, but there were defintely a few new things for me to learn here, or perhaps I was just finally ready to appreciate the nuances, regardless, thank you!
I've been soldering for years (not often, but a couple projects a year) and still learned a ton from this video. thank you!!!
Thanks for the refresher Bardwell!
Josh. I’m getting ready for a 4 inch LR build and this video was extremely useful. With a little practice of your techniques I’m sure At least my soldering will be spot on. Bruce
Thanks for this video. It was so illuminating. Showing the common mistakes was really helpful!
Mr. Bardwell i would like to say you have made my FPV hobbie so much fun and you taught me so much. I learn something new with every video that you have made. I am putting A 8 ducted motor drone together and i hoping to have it ready ASAP. Thank yuou once again I've learn something today
What a coincidence that my new soldering station arrived just today. I didn't solder for more than thirty years. I'm new in RC hobby (again) and I enjoyed your nice speech.
Thanks Mr Bardwell
That was awesome.. just finished my first build.
It would have been great to see this video 2 weeks ago !....My second build will be awesome for seeing this video.
Thanks Joshua...love watching your videos and I have learnt so much.
Your demo of the problem with oxidized tips showing the solder running away from the cold oxide layer is great! For thin 24 gauge wire I use 320 C ( 608 Fahrenheit ) while for 14 gauge wire I'd use 380-400 C. Soldering on the small FPV parts I think, even if you'd use 12 gauge wire for XT60 connection, requires at most 400 C ( 752 Fahrenheit )
I have been soldering for DIY projects for years, not very well at all until watching this tutorial amongst others, but I found yours very helpful. I got to the point where I almost gave up, and just filed down the tip of my gas soldering iron, and just used a flux pen with lead solder, and yes it works great, the secret is to use a flux, and a decent solder, worked great first attempt. Thanks for your videos, thanks to people like you, it helps to make others life easier, always good to see people share knowledge.
Bardwell, your the dad I never had. Thanks for the lessons and the patients.
thank you so much for this video, I was actually soldering the wrong way for so many years as I didn't know about warming up the pads to make the solder stick correctly! I am now seen so much better results.
Fastest 1hour of my time ever. Probably watch this at least 100 more times. By far an amazing soldiering tutorial
I have been soldering (hobby) for 30 years and learned more than I thought I would in the video. Thanks JB, another useful and well made tutorial. Much appreciated.
Joshua you are the GODFATHER of FPV. Thank you
Thank you JB. This was great. Now I need to go do some practice and correct some of my 10 year old bad habbits I have developed since I started in the RC and electronics hobby.
Great job Joshua! Yes , I learned something today. THANKS!
Great tips, and unless you work on an assembly line in electronic, no one soldier will look the same every time . Glad you made it clear you don’t just melt the solder on the iron. Also getting practice pads to practice will make a difference. Well done, I do mostly plumbing and will be ordering my tool, solder, flux and scolding iron from your links. In plumbing practice made perfect as it will with this more delicate work.
Obviously, there are countless videos available about soldering. And they run the gamut from outstanding to literally useless. I’ve been soldering for over 45 years and I can say that while this may not be the best, I sure wish I had as thorough an explanation and demonstration to learn from when I got started. It would have saved me a lot of grief, and answered virtually all of my noob questions. I have saved this vid so that I can share it with any beginners.
Thank you for deciding to do this excellent tutorial. 👍
Thanks for the class. I'm still starting in the hobby and I have no mistakes because I've never tried to do it 😅. Before it, I'll do some attempting in an old circuit. Thank you very much, hugs from Brazil.
Great job Josh. Best fpv soldering tutorial I've seen
I've watched your soldering tutorial quite lot, as well as yor building tutorial for almost a year. Thanks to the knowledge you've shared, I've finally gotten good at soldering and built my second quad from the ground up by myself. Still needed some help on some configurations in Betaflight, but overall I can proudly say I built it myself. And this soldering tutorial is part of that, and I thank you! Keep sharing knowledge, and have a great day JB. Cheers!
Thank you Josh. I ordered your hd version of kit you have. Got my practice solder board today. And Holy crap that was easy. Your videos explain things so well.
can u send the link for the practice board u used`?
I learned to solder about 25 years ago, and I like to think I'm pretty good at it. I completely agree with every single point you've made in this video. You have a ton of experience, and it shows. This is an excellent tutorial.
You finally mastered soldering . awesome 👏
Thank you Joshua for this info.
man this is an awesome tutorial! i have always felt limited by my soldering, and these tips pretty much directly address most of the areas that i struggle. I had several "Ahha!" moments watching this, realizing where i was making critical mistakes in the past. Im about to be soldering a FC for my first plane, and i feel much better about it. Thanks so much!
thank you! this makes getting into the hobby so much easier for people like me
Start building my first drone this month. I have buddies are seasoned vets and Hollywood cinelifters so they are helping but I definitely needed a refresher