This is my first day as a transition year student in the Physics Dept. at the University of Limerick. After a brief tour of the laboratories I got to work at soldering. This involved attaching wires and resistors to a circuit board by melting another metal around them. My skill/luck was evident upon monitoring the resistance of a current through the resistors. Desoldering was taking off the wires from the circuit board by basically melting the metal that held them together.Among the other technical skills I learned today were the use of the digital camera- to take the photos obviously- and how to create and manage a blog site.
You can see here a couple of photos of my soldering. Below you can see the apparatus used. What looks like a giant pen is actually a searing hot instrument used to melt the metals, and it's accompanied by the sponge to clean it. On the left you can see the circuit board with various wires soldered on to it.
You can see here a couple of photos of my soldering. Below you can see the apparatus used. What looks like a giant pen is actually a searing hot instrument used to melt the metals, and it's accompanied by the sponge to clean it. On the left you can see the circuit board with various wires soldered on to it.
