ANSWERED Question about soldering for a noob

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CLMT420

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So I bought the nand x cool runner with the qsb ect pretty much because I needed the nand x only and got a good deal on both. I have a phat jasper console. I don't have and soldering experience at all except for a couple times in high school. I know that it is crazy to go balls to the walls and try to install the cool runner with no experience so I'm not going too lol. But I need to fix my ap flag and i read the tutorial on here that I need to read my nand and so on. I have been practicing on an old laptop motherboard I have solder wires to small points and doing things wrong so I can do it right on my expensive console.

I can't seem to find any tutorials soldering the quick solder boards. From the research I have done, it looks like I just need the 1 qsb to read my nand. Do I put flux then solder on the point to tin first then put the qsb on top and join them together? I have flux core solder. Also what tip does anyone recommend? Thanks for any help, I want to be prepared before attempt this.
 
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coolkiddj12

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search for vids on the tx forums, there are tons.
 
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CLMT420

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knowlzy10 thanks, I saw that vid yesterday and was the reason I decided to give this a go. And thanks for the other links dgenx. Does it make it easier per-say using the qsb?
 
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i personally think so but everyone has there own way they find best. seen a few who prefare direct solder and others that use pin headers, its whatever you feel most comfortable doing once you finished your practising
 
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gogocons

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I tried using the QSBs and had a really bad time with them.

The easiest way I found to install the NAND-x is to do the wires method: just grab one wire at a time, heat up a point, push it through, rinse and repeat.

To each his own though!
 
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CLMT420

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Cool, thanks for the help I'll let you guys know how it goes when I get the stuff in a few days.

---------- Post added at 05:24 ---------- Previous post was at 05:22 ----------

It looks like I can't edit my post sorry for the double post. gogocons, are you new to soldering? What about the qsb didn't you like?
 
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gogocons

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I am not new to soldering, but I was blessed with an unsteady hand! When I tried to put in the QSBs I ended bridging points pretty quickly but I have seen great installs with them, they just don't happen for me unfortunately haha! I was just telling you a way that I found easiest to do.
 
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I practiced soldering the NAND and JTAG QSB's which come with the NAND-X to a dead board first, then read the NAND off it to make sure it was all good. It went perfectly first time - I tinned the solder points a little before placing the QSBs in position, then just used the soldering iron to join the solder already on the point to the point on the QSB, and hey presto, good clean connection.

I've done 4-5 RGHs now, but in between had a few mess ups where I've bridged two QSB points under the QSB itself meaning I had to remove the QSB to resolve the issue - and that is the hard part I find. Removing them without damaging the pads no doubt is possible, but I haven't managed to do it yet, better to get it right first time obviously. Oh and flux, don't forget flux.
 
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