How To Make A Soldering Iron With Usb Charger

The copper strips run horizontally on the back of the board in this image Turn the board around and solder the pins to the board.

How to make a soldering iron with usb charger. And at the end modified the charger to allow it to run from a USB power supply. It went really smoothly. 20 gauge wire for powering the iron 30 or 28 gauge wire for the onoff switch.

Strip the red and black wires. 5V usb charger cable. When charging is complete the angel-eye goes dark and the LED green.

How to make a soldering iron. 2 two 4-40 x 38 oval- or pan-head machine screws steel brass or zinc-plate not nylon were using these as makeshift power terminals 4 four 4-40 nuts. Most important thing to be kept in mind when working with soldering iron is not to touch the tip of the iron as it is extremely hot.

Soldering material used for the purpose is an alloy of tin and lead and is called flux. Model 7700 Portable Soldering Iron. He also installed a simple LED light to the base to show when the portable soldering iron was charging.

At this point plug the usb cable into a computer or usb wall outlet and ensure you have a good working connection. Wire cutters solder and related paraphernalia optionally some heat-shrink tubing. You are probably curious how long it took me - thinking about the whole project designing soldering - ehmm actually one minute - check out the video.

You will need flux for the desoldering. Home made soldering iron. Before you put solder over the required area heat up the surface to be soldered by touching the tip of the hot iron.