<div dir="ltr">I keep mine at 775F.<div><br><div>For everyday soldering, through hole (including headers) and SMD, I use 1/32" long tip and either 0.020" or 0.031" solder.</div><div>For super small jobs, 1/64" long tip and 0.020" solder.</div><div>For extra large components, I use 1/16" short tip and 0.031" solder.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Brian via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A too-cool iron is like a dull knife; much more likely to damage something. I keep my iron at 320 C typically, and it seems to handle most situations. I'll bump it to 350 or so if I'm trying to solder something with a lot of thermal mass (such as a large ground plane on a circuit board).<br>
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Wave solder specs on datasheets can be a good place to go for info on through-hole parts. The spec will most likely be too low to be practical, because it's presuming a lot of things already being hot (the solder is already melted and the boards are preheated), so you'll need your iron to be hotter than that, but you can at least get some amount of idea. If the spec says 270 C for 30 seconds, you're probably in good shape with a 320 C iron taking about five seconds for each joint.<span class=""><br>
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This can be controversial. We had a speaker at a meeting sometime ago<br>
that recommended 370C (700F). I actually do this myself, but some people<br>
think it's way too hot. The hotter the iron the faster you have to move,<br>
but a hot iron will generally make better connection IMHO.<br>
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