Lifted too much solder - none left!

I try to stay at about 625 degrees. Too much heat will lift traces. You need to rebuild the trace or pad, usually with a piece of wire.

greg

jderudder: You didn't "lift too much solder"..... you pulled up the solder pad, by probably using too much heat for too long. As another reply suggested you can run the wire through the hole and use a short jumper wire to connect to the circuit... unless, of course this is a multi-layer board and you pulled the plated through hole out, then you may be screwed. You may want to scrape the black dot with an exacto knife... if there is metal under there you can tin it and re-solder... in that case, you dodged a bullet and you are very lucky... go buy a lotto ticket. Best Regards, Daniel Sofie Electronics Supply & Repair

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Thanks a lot for all your help... Now I know why I should have got a proper soldering iron in the first place. I have one of those all ON or OFF and the heat was probably too high for this. I think my only option left is to solder some hookup wire directly on the pin of the chip. With a good iron this time, do you think this is feasible?

Sure, depending on how careful you are. You should pratice on some junk electronics that you don't need so that you don't screw up your good board more. I migt also suggest finding some wire wrap wire to do this because small wire is eaiser to deal with than large wire.

- Mike

- Mike

Yup, and you should also heat-sink the pin, so you do not damage the chip soldering close to the body. You would not want to cause an intermittent after fixing the pulled pad issue.

- Tim -

Another handy tip is to tin your wire first so you don't need nearly as much time putting heat on the chip pin.

WT

Get some old boards out of some electronic equipment at the dump (ideally with similar component styles, pin spacing etc.), and practice on those until you are confident.

Chris