Getting Started with soldering
Wadhwani Electronics Lab
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
By: Navaneeth C., Ruchi Singh, Maheshwar G. Mangat, Ankur Agarwal
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Introduction
1 This manual provides step-by-step instructions for assembling and soldering a
5V voltage regulator circuit and diagram is shown below.
2 The IC used for the voltage regulator is LM7805 and its pin diagram is shown
below.
Figure: Circuit diagram Figure: IC LM7805 Pinout
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Equipment required for the Soldering
Figure: Basic equipments
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Component Placement
Figure: Component placement front Figure: Component placement back
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Basic Instructions for getting starting with soldering
Clean the iron rod by rubbing it onto the sponge before starting
soldering.(Make sure the sponge is wet/soaked with water).
Place the tip of the iron rod at the point to be soldered, as shown. Please
note that the tip of the soldering iron is slanted.
Figure: Cleaning iron tip Figure: Slanted tip
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Apply solder wire at the point of contact of the rod.
Figure: Placing the iron rod Figure: Applying solder wire
You can bend and use the component legs for connections instead of using
wires.
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Figure: Removing component
legs(These component legs can be Figure: Component legs are being
use for making the circuit used for completing circuit
connections) connection
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Tin the multi-strand wire before soldering it to the board.
Figure: Tinning the multi stand
wire Figure: Non-Tin Vs Tin wire
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Final PCB after soldering
Figure: Top Figure: Bottom
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Output
Figure: 5V voltage regulator output
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