SparkFun According to Pete #46 - Point-to-Point Soldering

[@abdulazeez.98]

Please do more of "According to Pete" videos, they are great !

[@olipito]

According to Pete are the best sparkfun videos! You are a very good teacher on my opinion and I really enjoy the relaxed way you approach technical stuff. Please squeeze more knowledge out of your head for us!

[@brianschmalz1600]

Every new According To Pete video makes my day! Love these vids Pete. Keep it up brother-

[@snakeoilification]

Thanks, Brian!

[@MikeBramm]

Good to see another According to Pete. I miss them. You always make them interesting.

[@tdumnxy]

Excellent. Lots of useful information and insight, delivered in an informal, chat with a friend style. I can't believe I've not checked out your channel before given the number of other channels about similar topics that I do watch. Big thumbs up.

[@YeeThirty]

I never in a million years thought i would see vacuum tubes on a sparkfun video..

[@DesaultTech]

Love your videos wish you made them more frequently :/

[@snakeoilification]

Thanks for saying so! And that might actually happen...

[@Typical.Anomaly]

Instant upvote... bc I rarely know what month it is either lol

[@Projacked1]

You could use teflon-tape for the open high voltage points...just a tought?. It's fiddly but it works.

[@plateoshrimp9685]

It’s an accomplishment whenever you build something that works, but I’m not sure I’d be showing off that tube amp as an example of great point to point wiring.

[@bewing77]

This can't be stressed enough: it's not only in tube amps, but also in analog synthesizers, sequencers, compressors etc and in high grade HiFi equipment, "hard wired" circuits is a sign of quality, the theory being that a selected cable is going to be a better conductor than a tiny lane of a PCB. What I usually do is I use some kind of board and use a glue gun to glue the components to it "upside down", that is, with the legs pointing up, and then connect everything using wire, this can be very neat indeed. One step closer to a PCB is of course an experiment board with soldering holes, where you mount the components through the holes, but then use wires to hook everything up.

[@makingsense2268]

Regarding the uninsulated high-voltage point, I have a suggestion to boost the safety factor a bit. Once you're certain that point will not need to be desoldered (for the foreseeable future) you can add insulation to it with a dab of nail polish.

[@makingsense2268]

Another idea in the insanity file: point-to-point soldering of SMD components. I have a strip of bare 10 WS2812 RGB LEDs and I have considered making a sculptural doohickey with them, but I can't figure out how to hold them with sufficient stability to get those teensy pads tacked to leads. Obviously holding the part in a third hand will help, but do you have advice on the actual soldering?

[@snakeoilification]

The approach I'd probably start with is to tin both points with a decent blob of solder and tack them together with your iron. I've thought for a long time about building something stupid out of 0603 (OK, maybe 0805, my eyes aren't what they sued to be) parts, just to see what such a thing would look like, maybe hang it from a chain. In any case, I'd love to see what you're making.

[@tauniwood]

One hand behind my back it why I'm still here. That and the breaker doing its job for the wall outlet. I've been thrown by a flyback on an old mac servicing it. It didn't feel good.

[@onjofilms]

Edward! How did you get back in the states?

[@tessamccan9489]

I think you should go back to answering peoples questions , but related to a current project you are doing , and one a week :) not a year or two break in-between .

[@lasersbee]

0:03 ??? Man... better get off the drugs or alcohol...????

[@ShawnHymel]

To be fair, we filmed this last month, and Pete had no idea when it would go live :)

[@lasersbee]

Got It... Just sounded weird..

[@johnbravo7542]

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