RGH Is my soldering good enough?

[Honetrooper]

My Xconsoles order should be coming in tomorrow (unless USPS screws me over, but that's another story.) and as I am definitely not a pro solderer I've taken the advice of all the pros on here and have been practicing soldering on a dead pc pcb. I don't want to screw up my 360 board like I have seen so many people do so I've come here to consult the experts. Is my soldering good enough for a coolrunner/nand x qsb install? If its not I'll gladly work on it more before attempting an install and breaking my xbox, doesn't make sense to rush and do it as soon as I get the parts if my soldering still isn't up to par :crazy:. P.S. I think all the points are the size of the stby_clk other than the photo that has "25 OHMZ" written, and the picture with all of the ripped pads was from before I knew how to desolder so I just ripped the wires off :facepalm: but I DO know how to desolder now :tongue:.

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[reefz3ro]

looks good other than the amount of unshielded wire is to long in my opinion.

also in my experience if your using the qsb's the STBY_CLK is the toughest to solder with the qsb and it helps alot to scratch the pad a little (no need to be aggressive) before you lay the qsb down and needless to say use flux like always

but other than that you look like you should be good enough just take your time patience is key.

 

[Honetrooper]

looks good other than the amount of unshielded wire is to long in my opinion.

also in my experience if your using the qsb's the STBY_CLK is the toughest to solder with the qsb and it helps alot to scratch the pad a little (no need to be aggressive) before you lay the qsb down and needless to say use flux like always

but other than that you look like you should be good enough just take your time patience is key.

Yeah, me and the wire stripper weren't getting along :rolleyes2:. Scratch it with what? Thanks for the input too, never really soldered before but I've been teaching myself over the past couple days, and yeah I've picked up that flux is like the most important part, so I've been sure to use it.

 

[reefz3ro]

an exacto knife(mychoice) or fiberglass pen but dont get crazy and mess the pad up a little scuff just helps the solder adhere there i found if i dont do that i have trouble getting solder wanting to stick to that pad.

also another note i can add is it takes seconds to solder a point if you keep trying mutiple attempts on the same spot thats when pads get lifted because of the collected heat. so if you start having trouble with at point just walk away let it cool and come back to it.

 

[Honetrooper]

an exacto knife(mychoice) or fiberglass pen but dont get crazy and mess the pad up a little scuff just helps the solder adhere there i found if i dont do that i have trouble getting solder wanting to stick to that pad.

also another note i can add is it takes seconds to solder a point if you keep trying mutiple attempts on the same spot thats when pads get lifted because of the collected heat. so if you start having trouble with at point just walk away let it cool and come back to it.

Ok, ill scratch it a little if it won't tin tomorrow when I go for it, thanks for the tip. Yeah, hopefully I won't have that much trouble, the only points that are scaring me looking at the motherboard is the STBY_CLK as I've seen so many problems with that since I started learning about the RGH in Nov. and the green wire as there are a lot of components surrounding it. Thanks again for all the tips, I've gotten a little more confident now that someone else has examined them.

 

[Krafter]

Here is some video that Martin c posted. They might help you.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ba0zbkwac3bkdyj

It's refreshing to see someone taking the time to get their sh*t together before jumping into things. Good luck in your task at hand.

 

[Honetrooper]

Here is some video that Martin c posted. They might help you.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ba0zbkwac3bkdyj

It's refreshing to see someone taking the time to get their sh*t together before jumping into things. Good luck in your task at hand.

Watched those and the "How and Why to Solder Correctly" video Uber posted multiple times, they really helped :biggrin:. Yeah, I wanted to learn how to do this and successfully do it by myself but there's no point rushing in like so many people I've seen on this forum do, I want a working Xbox after I do it, not a 200$ paperweight. There's such a wealth of information on this forum that I think anyone could learn to do what is needed- in all honesty it's kind of sad to see how much time the Admins/Mods/VIP's have put into making this process as easy as possible for those of us who aren't nearly as skilled with a soldering iron, and then people who need the practice completely ignore all advice and go straight into the process and screw their console. The stupidity kind of just blows my mind to be honest :crazy:, but I digress, thanks for the help and the good luck