Having difficulty soldering the stepper motors (from DVD Drive) with 4 wires... It is sometimes either not melting... OR in case it melts... it starts to spreads to the other one next to it... WHICH WILL OBVIOUSLY CAUSE SHORT CIRCUIT!
What should I do?
Less solder, more flux.
What are you trying to solder, the terminals on the motor or the end of the flat ribbon cable?
What is your difficulty? Its not obvious in your photo.
If you still have the remainder of the device this came from, you might be able to use the ribbon cable connector.
Sounds like you are trying to solder to the ribbon cable - hard.
Unsolder that and connect straight to the stepper.
That kind of ribbon cable is meant to plug in
to a special connector. You probably can't
solder to it without melting the insulation.
Herb
That is NOT!!!! ribbon cable. It is a flexible printed circuit board and as been mentioned, the end is inserted into a connector designed for just that.
Carefully clean traces and solder with proper flux. Melting the plastic won't matter unless you let the traces join together.
Paul
Or forget about the ribbon.
Desolder the ribbon from the motor, and solder normal wires to the motor terminals.
Leo..
Raahim-Irfan:
Having difficulty soldering the stepper motors (from DVD Drive) with 4 wires... It is sometimes either not melting... OR in case it melts... it starts to spreads to the other one next to it... WHICH WILL OBVIOUSLY CAUSE SHORT CIRCUIT!What should I do?
Learn how to solder. Watch a few tutorial videos, then practice.
Soldering is an art. You can't just grab a soldering iron and hope to get it right the first time.
A skilled technician could solder those huge connections easily with a 140 watt Weller gun.
Learn, then practice. Then practice more.
