SOLDERING GUIDE - GranaSAT

1 SOLDERING . GUIDE . SOLDERING Technology - a never ending story for more than 5,000 years Man had scarcely learned how From then on, the world's with seams which could with- In 1921, 80 years ago, he de- ERSA quality products have to use metals for his purposes SOLDERING technology was on stand 18 Atm (!), and conjured veloped the first electric and their home in a miriad of when the desire to join them its way upwards. It first spread up stoves and tubs made of mass-produced SOLDERING places. From hobby shops arose in him. Many of the around the Mediterranean. bronze, not to mention the iron for industry. Driven by a for Tiffany SOLDERING , to pieces of jewelry, tools and The Cretians showed it to the arts of their goldsmiths and desire to innovate, we have electric hardware shops, up weapons we know from the Etruscans, who then taught it armorers.

2 Devoted ourselves to the con- to toughest OEM factory Bronze Age were given their to the Romans, Tunesians, The last century, in particular, tinuous development and applications, our product utility and beauty by SOLDERING . Spaniards, followed by many not only witnessed an increased perfection of SOLDERING tech- range is designed to meet Today, it is difficult to say others, including the less improvement in the craftman's nology. every SOLDERING need. who first discovered how to developed cultures of the SOLDERING skill, but also our With the world's largest This versatile SOLDERING GUIDE glue metals. One thing is time - the Swiss, Bohemians, understanding was refined spectrum of soft SOLDERING should help you find your certain, the goldsmiths of Hungrians, Teutons and in respect to the scientific products and 80 years of way into the world of solder- ancient Egypt knew how to Scandinavians.

3 Interactions which take place industrial experience, ERSA ing - and perhaps we can join gold more than 5,000 the art of SOLDERING was during SOLDERING . is synonymous with expertise ignite a SOLDERING fire in years ago. Their colleagues improved and sophisticated Consequently, soft SOLDERING and quality. Our range of hand you, just as it has burned in Troy were also master from culture to culture, developed into an independent SOLDERING tools begins with for 80 years in our hearts. solderers long before the generation to generation. field of production engineering the smallest, 5-watt needle ancient Teutons could even Looking back, the most in the electronics industry.

4 And covers everything from dream of such handicraft. impressive achievements can It combines the disciplines conventional hand SOLDERING SOLDERING came of age when be attributed to the ancient of mechanics, chemistry, equipment, countless custom- tin was discovered as a solder- Romans. They soldered 400 km physics and metallurgy, to ized solutions for special ing metal. After all, that was long water pipes made of lead an equal extent. applications, to the 550-watt 4,000 years ago. workshop SOLDERING iron. Ernst Sachs, founder of ERSA (a name comprised Moreover, ERSA's electronically of the beginning letters of temperature-controlled his first and last names) SOLDERING stations now contributed to this.

5 Represent, in the same way, the standard for the entire industry as the complete line of wave, reflow and selective ERSA's state-of- SOLDERING iron SOLDERING systems. the-art center for heated by fire: 2 SOLDERING techno- logy in Wertheim SOLDERING technology around 1536. 3. In the industry, at home, and everywhere - the art of SOLDERING SOLDERING SOLDERING tip direction flux melted solder oxide layer hardened solder printed conductor base material Flux reaction during SOLDERING on a printed conductor when a SOLDERING wire with flux core is used But what exactly is the art of SOLDERING ? SOLDERING is when two metallic dissolved and unite with the For maximum tensile strength, workpieces are joined with the alloy, i.

6 E. form mixed crystals which is synonymous to best aid of molten metallic binding in the so called intermetallic solder joint quality, it is import- material (solder). The trick lies zone . ant that the intermetallic zone in having the melting point of Tin is responsible for this, is neither too small nor too With ERSA's high quality SOLDERING tools, anyone can practice the art of the solder lower than that of whereas lead is charged with thick. The ideal parameters the metal to be joined. If this making the solder easy to melt are intermetallic pro- point is below 450 C, the pro- and ensures the mechanical duced at 220 C to 280 C, Soft SOLDERING is an indispen- cess is termed soft SOLDERING .

7 Stability of the joint. within about two seconds. sable part of modern technology. If it is above the value, it is hard A solder joint consists of five With a higher rate of intermet- It is the preferred means of SOLDERING . Opposed to this, zones: allic material, the solder joint producing reliable electrical when welding, the metals to be becomes brittle and porous, connections. Such connections joined are brought to their own 1 Basic material with less than we have melting point by heating and 2 Zone of mixed crystals no tensile strength and there- are required in household appliances just as much as the material is then fused . 3 Hardened solder fore a bad or cold solder they are in computers or space In soft SOLDERING , the joints bet- 2 Zone of mixed crystals joint.

8 Shuttles. In other words, almost ween the metals to be joined 1 Basic material .. for hobby-applications .. and service-use nothing works nowadays with- are filled with an alloy made of out soft SOLDERING . A SOLDERING iron around the technology, electronics, etc. lead and tin. It is important that Just ask your electrician, TV- house may not put a carpenter In addition, there are a variety this alloy does not simply stick Cross section of a solder joint ERSA SolderWell Technology serviceman, vehicle mechanic out of work, but replaces a good of hobby applications in which to the surface of the foreign 1. or dentist about SOLDERING . number of other craftsmen the use of a SOLDERING iron is by metal after cooling, instead it 2.

9 Even the bosses at IBM, Siemens, dealing with electrical and no means subject to limitations, must unite with the metal. For Rolls Royce or NASA will give sanitary installation, radio, TV, when it comes to imagination this purpose, a small quantity 3. you the same answer. lighting and communications and versatility. of the foreign metal must be 2. 1.. for Tiffany- SOLDERING .. for industrial use SOLDERING solder tip 4 The prepared parts and the solder are heated The melted solder flows into the solder gap and fills it The hardened solder joins the parts 5. What do you need for SOLDERING ? 1. The SOLDERING iron for heat Nickel coating The base material made of highly conductive electrolytic copper SOLDERING tip tip spring heating element handle connection wires connection cable ensures unhindered heat transfer from the heating element to the ERSADUR coating The ERSADUR coating (100.)

10 To 300 micron) of iron plating at the tip (depending on the type of Nickel coating tip) is factory pre-tinned. Heat is required in order to solder used. The usual tempe- thermal rating of the SOLDERING Chrome plating prevents melt the solder. It's the job of corrosion and solder rature in the electronics field iron is important. You must collecting on undesired the SOLDERING iron to provide lies between 250 C and 350 C. choose one which lies within spots this heat. Temperatures of In order to have the proper the desired temperature range Iron coating 200-450 C are needed, depend- temperature for every or choose an adjustable solder- ing on the solder joint and the SOLDERING application, the ing iron or SOLDERING station.