Jesse69
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I was testing my new Radioshack Digital Solderer - http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3132686#
- and I put it up all the way to 842F for the tip but it couldn't desolder a capacitor end off a bad capacitor on my sound card. I put the tip to the solder and it would hardly melt away and through the board so I'd be able to remove the capacitor end. Now is it my desoldering technique that's bad or I gotta a no good Digital Solderer?
According to this web page the solder should have melted easily http://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/solder.htm
- Or else do they use ultra high melting point solders on Williams PCBs?
And don't electrolytic capacitors go bad with age so you gotta replace them? They sorta dry out or so?
- and I put it up all the way to 842F for the tip but it couldn't desolder a capacitor end off a bad capacitor on my sound card. I put the tip to the solder and it would hardly melt away and through the board so I'd be able to remove the capacitor end. Now is it my desoldering technique that's bad or I gotta a no good Digital Solderer?
According to this web page the solder should have melted easily http://www.rfcafe.com/references/electrical/solder.htm
- Or else do they use ultra high melting point solders on Williams PCBs?
And don't electrolytic capacitors go bad with age so you gotta replace them? They sorta dry out or so?

