+SmarterEveryDay Hehe! Well that's how we all learn, isn't it?! I still have all my "Educational Scars"! On a side note, I was joking, you're the best!
One trick I use when soldering, even small compentents, even though with the smaller components it doesn't make too much of a difference, is to cut the legs before soldering as they can act as a heatsink. This trick is better used with bigger components. Absolutely loving this channel! Funny and weirdly informative at the same time.
This video made me miss my kit assembly days, I used to work in an electronics retail store, and often people would pay to have kits assembled for them. We sold a lot of practical kits, like amplifiers, diagnostic tools like spectrum analysers/tone generators/et al, that were cheaper alternatives to pre-built items, even with the assembly cost added. I got to assemble about 4-5 kits a month, and it was the most enjoyable part of my job.
I always love your content. Appreciate the run down- and look forward to more content! Boy, would love one of those kits (obligatory poorly placed needy comment)
When i worked in aerospace as an avionics tech, we were taught to solder at a much lower temp mainly to avoid overheating the contact pads. Most solder will melt at ~180'c so we soldered at around 200'c. Also use isopropyl alcohol as it leaves no residue.
How dare you disrespecting the beautiful and mysterious art of MECHANICAL ENGINEERING?! As a mechanical engineer I could burn and electrocute myself at least as good as you do my good sir!
I was always told that mechanical engineers are primarily experts in crushing, impalement, and being launched unexpectedly into the ionosphere. Interesting how much the skillsets overlap. You learn something new every day!
I've been longing to make a tesla coil for ages! Having to do the windings was the biggest thing putting me off. I'm glad there is a kit with the windings already done!
@@hiidenkiuas I totally forgot I commented this LOL It's like the kit is showing light to the Sun. The Sun, obviously, is Mehdi. But, yeah. You can say the response is too humble to be a troll but meh
@@ayne0735 Bruhhh... Whaaa-- How could you possibly deduce that but not win any Nobel!? To get to that conclusion, you have to couple the wavefunction of each electron in my system, take into account, the rate of loss of electrons due to shedding of skin cells, hair, fecal matter and what not, and also the electrons involved in the body growth, blood cell production and what not, couple/decouple them as a function of time. Besides, you have to design a basic model of my response to the universe, verify it with my behavioral psychology and keep iterating it; and then find the wavefunction of that too. Then comes the near impossible. You have to find the relation between your draft model and the final wavefunction, both of which keep varying perpetually. The relation should have a stabilization factor to synchronise the changes that both the wavefunctions undergo. After establishing that, you have to formulate an operator that gives the eigenvalues of dumbness. Then, operate it on the wavefunction. Then, the final step (probably (no pun intended)), is to reduce the uncertainty. I could be wrong, but, damn, you should be winning more than one Nobel for this! Cruel world, eh? So many bullies, ignoramuses. Or maybe you're too judgemental and you suck at that. Anyways, humanity is dead. No doubt about that.
The maths used in both fields are similar. People often use mechanical systems as analogies for electrical circuits when they're teaching electrical engineering. mass - inductance stiffness - capacitance (1/C to be exact) damping - resistance displacement - charge force - voltage
I would love one of those kits. Your experience winding the secondary put me right off doing it myself :) Would be a great project to do with my teenage daughter.
Okay so first of all I absolutely love your videos. You're somehow able to combine science, comedy, and a little bit of chaos all into your videos. I know this sounds silly, but I'm legitimately working on the idea of a Nikola Tesla musical, as Nikola Tesla is one of my scientific heroes. In fact one of the songs I'm currently messing with would actually be played with Tesla coils. It would be amazing to have a Tesla coil of my own for musical reason and just the pure awesomeness of having a frickin' Tesla coil. It doesn't really get much cooler that making music with miniature bolts of lightning- if I could have a Tesla coil that would honestly make my year. I know there are thousands of comments but I appreciate you reading this if you do- Continue to be educational, hilarious, and just all around awesome!
restcure pretty sure mehdi doesn't even read this shit and selects comments randomly. So all these sob stories people write thinking he'll read it and pick them is pretty funny to see lol
+ElectroBOOM, realy good job. Although I usualy leave few millimiter of leads on these type of caps so that solder can flow through plated holes, it is a really good indicator of good solder job if you can see nice fillet on other side of the board as well. Although NASA standard would also ask you to tin the ends of legs you cut so they don't corrode. And I prefer isopropil alcohol for cleaning PCB, removes rosin-based fluxes much better, and is very volatile as well.
7:46 Tzh !!! I can do that in with one movement in less than a second. I worked as PCB assembler. I quit because I hated the music they played at the factory.
I have a 2 in 1 Solder/hot air blower station for SMD and other stuff. I got it for Christmas and it is great. The iron is rated at 60W and the air blower is 300W. BTW: when I solder I touch the iron to the solder and the solder melts onto the pad and leg. It works very well for reliable joints.
I am an engineering student from india... Your are Awesome.. whenever i come to your videos, I really learn so many things. I am your hugefan... You make the things interesting... 😍😍😍😍😍
Oh, a tesla coil would be very nice! I could place it in my room and watch the sparks, while listening to music. Futhermore to convince you, that I earn one (just kidding), I'm 17 and really interested in electronics. So keep doing your great work ✌
"Shit, If I survive this kit I will give away 4 of these" 😁😁😁 Everytime you post new videos I get happy that you are still alive bro. May you live live many fruitful years to create these funny and educational videos. Rock on!
he almost did one xD and it was for entertainment rather than actually building,i mean who covers a car tire compessor in got glue to make it suck in 1 direction so that he can harness it :D
Another great video. I totally need one of those Tesla Coils. I have tons of beautiful death metal to play through it. Also any man who solders on his PCB at 480 degrees is well worth my support on Patreon. :)
I am also a Mechanical Engineer, and every time some relative asks for help, its just some really simple assembly. Anyone could do it, but shhh, we get some money for looking cool and saying some fancy words doing it ^^
Dude 400 °C? I solder between 250 to 300 °C, beyond that (an especially at your temperature) the lifetime of the tip of your soldering iron rapitely decreases and the flux can char.
I guess given the large surface area and the small cross sectional area of the copper wires in addition to its conductivity, the loss of thermal energy is rapid, so using a high temperature like this provides a "grace period" until it cools down to the actual melting point of the solder. Just a guess though correct me if I am wrong. :D
airflyer13 - He said 480 degrees C., which is MUCH higher than necessary. As a professional who does high-reliability soldering, I have never needed temps so high, even for relatively large components. Not only will it shorten the life of the tip, but you risk damaging your components and burning the circuit board if you do not solder as quickly as he does.
Depends. I have an FM-202 and it auto-calibrates to the specified temperature for the selected tip. Mine usually hangs around 700-750F, or around 400C. It looks to me like he's not using a dedicated station, rather a cheap generic plug-in mains ones, which if you've ever soldered with those take ages to heat up and have nothing for thermal regulation. Setting it to wetting temps doesn't do anything because there's nothing there to actually regulate that temperature. You touch it to a pad and the heat gets pulled away, fast. The iron does not actually push in any more power to maintain the desired temperature. 63/37 leaded solder may melt at 183C/361F, but you also have to consider what the component is attached to. Soldering a capacitor or even a resistor to a large voltage plane is going to sap away a ton of that heat. Factor in a lack of proper tip temperature regulation and you have an iron where you'll sit it on the pad for minutes on end with no wetting action. Higher temperatures allow for wetting temps to be achieved faster. Ideally you need 2 to 3 seconds of contact, maximum. Higher temps will achieve that. You especially need higher temps on shittier irons. I've tried soldering at 500F and it's a pain in the dick. I work on SMD components under a microscope. The only way to deliver the heat needed to a ground pin on a component like a charge port is to deliver a fuckload of heat into it on that single, tiny point. More heat isn't necessarily bad and is in no way a reflection of incompetence.
Correction, The dark Green (or red) stuff is called Screen (more correctly Solder Resist) as it covers the copper tracks except where the connection points for the components are. The White stuff is called Legend and is usually labels for components and settings for jumpers and dipswitches. The screen and the legend are printed on the board using a process called Screen-Printing cos it uses a silk screen.
Good luck! A good choice! I got into electronics when I was young. Go for it! - Start playing with PIC microcontrollers, the starter kits are pretty low cost or Raspberry Pi's. I have a few Pi's that I use at home - one as a GPS disciplined NTP time server and another running a music streamer but also use them for work. There are lots of projects out there and a number of programming languages that you can use to get to the GPIO pins to develop projects.
I usually bend legs to hold things in place too, but Big Clive mentioned that doing so makes it harder to replace components later if needed; he uses some electrical tape to hold components in place!
The legend is printed using silk screen. Strangely a similar process is used to create surface mount solder pads using paste. I used to operate one of those pasting machines while working in a motherboard factory, when not working on QC
Excellent my friend. I'd love to have a small musical Tesla coil to help me and my son learn and make experiments together unfortunately it's not in my budget for now ...
I thinl most of him shokking himself is a joke or a prank and the wats and voltage is not that high but still high enough so he feels pain. And when they are not jokes the voltage and wats are laughable so i dont think he wil die soon.
