I used the USB C base soldering iron with an interchangeable tip, and it did not want to wick to the iron tip. I suspect is the iron tip problem. In fact their temperature suggested is high like one suggested 600 degrees celcius. When I see those videos on soldering chips, their iron seems to wick off some of the access solder while leaving the chip pins clean instead of smearing it into a blob and spreading it to other pins. Btw remind myself to get a microscope for these types of projects. Using just my eyesight is darn near challenging.
Wicking is a bit of an art :) it depends on quite a few variables to get it right: thickness of board, size of the plane, quality of the braid/wick, using flux, using a large enough iron tip (I use a large 4C tip), and high enough temperature. I'm no expert, but that's been my experience (and many failures also :)). Don't give up, just try different approaches/ideas.
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I used the USB C base soldering iron with an interchangeable tip, and it did not want to wick to the iron tip. I suspect is the iron tip problem. In fact their temperature suggested is high like one suggested 600 degrees celcius. When I see those videos on soldering chips, their iron seems to wick off some of the access solder while leaving the chip pins clean instead of smearing it into a blob and spreading it to other pins. Btw remind myself to get a microscope for these types of projects. Using just my eyesight is darn near challenging.
Wicking is a bit of an art :) it depends on quite a few variables to get it right: thickness of board, size of the plane, quality of the braid/wick, using flux, using a large enough iron tip (I use a large 4C tip), and high enough temperature. I'm no expert, but that's been my experience (and many failures also :)). Don't give up, just try different approaches/ideas.
@@mysolderingexperiments Agree on all points and thanks for the words of encouragements. Appreciate it.