Hardware soldering tips

[dark_samus3]

Currently doing it now just wondering whether i should use 2 to 3 strands instead of just one. What the heck is a ultra ide cable. Also in the pic below wouldnt it be easier to just solder direct to the big pieces of metal also nicely sperated by the plastic. These wires are thing enough i reckon it would fit being wired to that bit.

It's actually called ultra ATA (IDE is technically PATA)

Here's an image that explains better

With your cable I'd say use one wire on everything except the GND line, on that use two wires

 

[mijuu]

ah ic fuck.

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wouldnt using 2 or three strands more or less be the same anyway.

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so would the 40 wire version be to big?

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my ide cable is 30 awg seems perfect to me.

 

[dark_samus3]

ah ic fuck.

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wouldnt using 2 or three strands more or less be the same anyway.

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so would the 40 wire version be to big?

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my ide cable is 30 awg seems perfect to me.

The bigger IDE wire is perfect size, if you can use the smaller stuff then more power to ya it's mostly just hard to separate the wires

EDIT: here's some of the 40 wire size IDE wire soldered to the same size test pads you'll be soldering to

Not the best job but this isn't a permanent job (needed to actually use the test pads haha)
Also in the top corner you can see some magnent wire, I used that for the CLK line on my old 3ds on the NAND mod

 

[mijuu]

trying to blag a mate to dig some ide cables out now bigger is easier to work with imo.

 

[dark_samus3]

trying to blag a mate to dig some ide cables out now bigger is easier to work with imo.

Yep that's why I recommend the 40 wire version

 

[mijuu]

this any good?

 

[dark_samus3]

this any good?

Should work

 

[mijuu]

sound

 

[dark_samus3]

Good luck

 

[mijuu]

Back at page 2 at the bottom would soldering to the visible plates in the first picture work ok?

 

[dark_samus3]

If you mean the ones you can see with the case fully assembled, no

 

[mijuu]

ah ok wont bother then.

 

[mijuu]

Just finished doing the sd card. I have however lost the piece of plastic that locks the write state of it. is there anyway of bypassing this without the plastic bit?

 

[dark_samus3]

Just finished doing the sd card. I have however lost the piece of plastic that locks the write state of it. is there anyway of bypassing this without the plastic bit?

I opened my card reader and soldered the detect line so it stayed all of the time, but what I did (sucessfully) before that was take a small piece of plastic and super glue it into the spot it needed to go and then file it flush to the card

 

[mijuu]

wont super glue on its own be ok to fill the space, or does it need to be a solid object?

 

[dark_samus3]

wont super glue on its ok work ok to fill the space or does it need to be a solid object?

Not sure what the question is here lol

EDIT: I figured out what you meant, no you'd have to have lots of layers of super glue, much easier to break a piece of plastic off of something and glue it down

 

[mijuu]

ok will do that then. Yeah just read my last post, da fuq apparently i wrote that lol.

 

[mijuu]

is there some kind of technique im missing here. im practicing on an old router and for some reason I can't get the wire to connect to anything it just doesn't seem to want to adhere properly to nowt. I had no problem with the sd. This is what im practicing on.

 

[dark_samus3]

It looks like your wire is too big... Also try tinning the wire beforehand and there may be something called an E coat on top of the solder, its basically a coating that you have to scrape off to solder to it

 

[mijuu]

hmm tried soldering straight to a metal object for a ground example, solder just balls up and moves around with the iron. I think it's not sticking because the surfaces I'm soldering to aren't pads, possibly, fuck knows.

Whats the max recommended time to have the iron on a 3ds pad? 0.5mm tip. Im guessing one or 2 seconds.