ive worked with different soldering irons and have not encountered this phenomenom<:thronk:441701565607444482>

a bad tip maybe or some kind of cemical reaction is my bet

acid resin core?

no idea. its a crap soldering iron and pack-in solder

i have a backup iron, so it would be nice to figure out what im doing wrong before i start using that one

@M4Gunner you've never had a tip go bad? @Nordhand is basically correct - you probably have been scraping it on metal wool? You get a little scratch going and then it reacts with the flux - that tip is going to melt from the inside out now once you get enough flux and tin in that hole.

Buy a new tip or just go for a new iron. The Goot adjustbale irons are cheap but super awesome

close, i tried cleaning it with a soft towel 🤣

good to know now, thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFKYUi3p8zY

this right here is something quite a few people who do a lot of soldering never use

some irons actually tell you to not use them

EG those Hakko stylus tips

but there's other stuff like some tips are just weak to a lot of flux or you may have nicked it

either way, unless you're using fancy Hakko tips most are pertty cheap. My most expensive Goot tip was maybe 1,200JPY (like $12)

I'd go for a Hakko station but I don't do nearly enough precision work to warrant it

AliExpress has 10packs of tips for $3

probly crap but i could afford to replace them every day 😄

well, it all depends on what you're soldering too

if you're doing surface mount and stuff like that then you should actually use a good iron and tip

but pretty much anything else and a $6 tip should last you a good year or more

I have a client trying to weasel out of a bill and I saw it a fucking mile a way. I put a stop on an addition to the order because I knew if it went any further he'd just drop off the face of the earth

im mostly practicing on cheap craft circuits and old PCBs. I probly wont try to solder onto a fresh board until i get better

if i had a nice station i might find a way to ruin it 😄

I bought a multimeter and one of the first things I learned was using it incorrectly can break it

once you get into it get a good multimeter. I've got a fluke I've been using for... like 20 years now 😄

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/423219052849397773/485791598253309962/unknown.png saw this shit on amazon some time ago but i forgot what it is called again

I have 3 things to say about soldering. Fuck non lead solder, fuck flux, and inhale all the fumes you can, it makes the experience less painful.

i am exactly the kind of faggot to buy non-lead solder

but i recently learned why i maybe shouldnt

JIK is that plain steel wool? or something similar?

one guy on youtube suggest nothing besides paper towels and retinning

@M4Gunner Non-lead solder straight up doesnt work

well i hate soldering, so i probly wont do it often enough to get lead poisoning 🙂

your very own RMS InterjectionBot, courtesy of ED
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Here's the chip I burned out on my board, the L293DD Motor Drive IC
https://www.arduino.cc/documents/datasheets/H-bridge_motor_driver.PDF

@M4Gunner Just do what I did and burn out all three NAND gates in the middle of the class exam.

If I'm not wrong, it looks like it can't take power above 7v max. So likely was burnt out by connecting 2 18650 batteries in series, which gives up to 7.4v

@meratrix that would be sweet, then they could show me what i did wrong faster

what kinda hardware?