Bregalad wrote:
Say as you wish, but I myself think that placing wires is one of the worst occupation on earth, only exeded by solder two wire-ends toghether and by solvering a standing resistor, and it's incredibly scaring. I always want my wire to roll around the pin, and then the thing quit the pin up for some random reaon, and I have to restart the whole thing again. Once it holds down the pin witout moving, solver it is really hard, scince you have to still have the wire not moving, hold your iron, hold your solder and be carefull to make a decent solvering job all this at the same times. This just makes me mad.
Like anything else, soldering is a skill that you acquire. To make life easier, I do this:
1) put some solder on the chip pin you wish to solder to (not ALOT but enough to give it a good coat. this is called 'tinning')
2) put some solder on the end of the wire you wish to solder also. Not a lot... if you make a tiny ball that's OK... and I mean tiny- say 1/2 the wire's diameter. if it's any bigger than this, you will have too much solder.
3) with one hand, put the wire's tinned end next to the pin and heat both with the iron. THere should be enough solder on both to make a good connection.
If done right, the two will be decently soldered.
note: If you dally too long, the flux on the solder will be gone and it won't work very good. This method relys on there being a little flux left. If you run out of flux, the joint made will be grey and dull. If done right, it'll be bright and shiny. You can also add a little flux is need be, but I never have to personally.