User manual

Table of Contents
1 Introduction 5
2 Components 6
2.1 Battery 6
2.2 Resistors 6
2.3 Ceramics Capacitator 7
2.4 Electrolyte Capacitator 7
2.5 LED 8
2.6 Transistor 9
2.7 Diode 10
2.8 Integrated Circuit (IC) 11
3 Soldering Basics 12
3.1 What is Soldering? 12
3.2 The Soldering Iron 12
3.3 Soldering Equipment 13
3.4 Too Hot and too Cold Solder Points 16
3.5 The Right Tools 17
3.6 Before Starting Soldering 18
4 Soldering 19
4.1 Tinning Stranded Wire 19
4.2 Soldering Together Wires 20
4.3 Preparing Components 20
4.4 Soldering Wire Bridges to Strip Grid 21
4.5 Soldering Wire Bridges to a Point Grid 23
4.6 Soldering Wire Bridges to a Point Grid - Version 2 24
4.7 De-soldering Lateral Wire Bridges 25
4.8 De-soldering Soldered-In Wire Bridges 26
4.9 Simple LED Circuit: Preparations 27
4.10 Simple LED Circuit 28
4.11 Soldering SMD Diode 32
4.12 Soldering SMD Operational Amplifier 34
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