Well, its still butt cold where I live and doing solder jobs out in the garage is getting harder and harder because its getting colder and colder. But I discovered something that is getting me out of there quicker. I am using my heat gun on my Hako iron to keep the heat up on it. I can do more joints, faster if I keep my tip heated by my heat gun on high while I move to the next joint. I don't have to wait as long between solder joints and/or removing the old caps. I have found that preheating my solder wick little helps remove the solder a little faster from the old stuff that I want to remove. Just something to think about.
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Re: A trick that might help you out in my (your) cold garage/shop...
Thanks for the tip, Scott. I ended up becoming frustrated with cheap-o soldering irons, and finally invested in a GREAT ceramic-element iron.
I think I paid near 50 dollars, but it's been in use for 3 years now, and heats up SUPER fast, and STAYS hot. I can do tiny jobs with a small chisel, and large jobs are even a piece of cake. I've soldered battery packs together for RC cars with this iron and a large chisel tip. And if you have done that, you KNOW that you need heat SUPER FAST and a LOT of it to get the bars soldered to the battery terminals.
I bought it from Inland Craft. Here is a link:
http://www.inlandcraft.com/PIsheets/PIinstaheat.htm
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I had a lot of trouble with the WiFi connection from my router inside of the house into a ( new ) metal garage I had to run a 150 ft cat6 patch cord so the WIFI connection would be strong enough for the WiFi connection on the garage door opener would work correctly ( my son has a work out area in the garage as well and he was having to put his phone near the door to be able to stream music ) ( so I was going to eventually put WiFi out there anyway )
This garage door opener WiFi is very touchy if you lose the power it does not remember the password for the router which is weird or... -
I have been having issues with this garage door opener for a while first the range of the remote was a lot less and sometimes it would start to go down and stop for no reason that I could find and would every once in awhile to start with then it started going more frequently until last Saturday when I opened the garage door it refused to close so I cranked up force all the way maximum limit this did not work also the sensor on one side that has a green and red lights that are supposed to be on when the door is open and there are no obstacles in the way on the original board the only light that...
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This happened last Saturday and today I finally had time this morning before I went to work to replace two non brand capacitors
I will let you be the judge weather or not these are bad or not according to the blue ESR meter that I am using
I am comparing them to a brand new one that I installed
The display came back on and the programming was not lost which I was surprised by I would have thought that when the display went blank that so did the memory as well
I going to let it run for several days before I remount back on the wall next to the... -
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Hi everyone,
got an Acer Helios 500 Laptop (PH517-51) for diagnosing with a strange issue:
The laptop runs for a while (1-2 hours, sometimes less) and then suddenly shuts completely off, like someone pulled the power cord and restarts immediately after on its own.
If this happened once, then the laptop only runs for a few minutes until restart.
This happens regardless while staying in windows or uefi or in a linux environment.
At first I thought of a normal overheating issue, but as I monitored temps with HWInfo64, nothing seems very hot.
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