Lead free or regular 60/40 solder?

[ivtec]

Hi guys i have here a SF E machines that i found on the side walk, that eventually somebody threw it out i believe of a moving car, for the damage that was inflicted to the PC tower, it's completely dead,for the moment i'm concentrated on the Power Supp that has some broken paths which it will be easy to repair,but i don't know if i should use led free solder or regular solder!
here a pic of the power supply, circled in black where the broken circuit is,thanks.

[mariushm]

Re: Lead free or regular 60/40 solder?

If you have a decent soldering station, use whatever you want.
If you have a lousy soldering iron without temperature control, use 60/40 or 63/37 solder, as it's going to be easier.

The boards you have are using lead free solder but it won't cause any problems if you mix solder types on the board, or if you replace the lead free solder with lead based solder.

[ivtec]

Re: Lead free or regular 60/40 solder?

If you have a decent soldering station, use whatever you want.
If you have a lousy soldering iron without temperature control, use 60/40 or 63/37 solder, as it's going to be easier.

The boards you have are using lead free solder but it won't cause any problems if you mix solder types on the board, or if you replace the lead free solder with lead based solder.

Thanks mariushm; i actually have lead free solder too,and my soldering station is LF-1000 controlled,


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[Stefan Payne]

Re: Lead free or regular 60/40 solder?

Use whatever you are familiar with...

[ivtec]

Re: Lead free or regular 60/40 solder?

Use whatever you are familiar with...

I used lead free and it did the job,the smashed E machines is up and running,after i did repair the broken power supply board in a few places,it's running win 7,whoever owned it did not have name and password on it so my good luck,it's not a bad PC tower 4Gb ram 329GB HDD,i guess my Pentium 4 is going to retire cause this one is gonna take its place he,he,he.
as they say other people trash is my treasures.

[Sparkey55]

Re: Lead free or regular 60/40 solder?

I used lead free and it did the job,the smashed E machines is up and running,after i did repair the broken power supply board in a few places,it's running win 7,whoever owned it did not have name and password on it so my good luck,it's not a bad PC tower 4Gb ram 329GB HDD,i guess my Pentium 4 is going to retire cause this one is gonna take its place he,he,he.
as they say other people trash is my treasures.

http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/

[momaka]

Re: Lead free or regular 60/40 solder?

Nice score and good to hear you got the PC working!

That Athlon 2850e CPU is a nice low-power CPU - good for your electricity bill. I'm not sure how well it will compare against the Pentium 4s with HT. I find the older single-core Athlon 64 CPUs to be inferior to Pentium 4 with HT when it comes to browsing online and video decoding/encoding. That said, you can always upgrade the CPU in that PC. If you look on eBay, a decent Athlon 64 X2 can be had for under $7 shipped. Not quite as good as a Core 2 Duo performance, but still a dual-core CPU nonetheless. Single core CPUs tend to hiccup with online browsing, in my expeirence (particularly on websites with lots of active Flash/HTML5 content).

You also might want to get a better GPU for that PC, though. The GeForce 6150 chipsets are known to fail like crazy. A dedicated GPU will take off some of the work from the GF 6150 chipset and make it run a bit cooler. Low-end video cards like the Radeon HD 3450 and HD 4350 have built-in H.264 decoding - a nice plus for some streaming video websites. Not to mention those GPUs are dirt-cheap on eBay (can be found for under $10, including shipping costs).

as they say other people trash is my treasures.

Same here.