Need to move a capacitor... how would i solder it?

engstrom0304 · 29 Jan 2011 at 17:15

Hi I need to do this...

Here is my capacitor...

And this is what im trying to solder the wire to...

This is my soldering iron..

How would I go about doing that???

998cc · 29 Jan 2011 at 17:23

Are they not poked through the circuit board and soldered from the underside?

-westy- · 29 Jan 2011 at 17:24

get a finer tip, and clean it all up. Then turn the board over and let the legs of the capacity protrude. solder

PermaBanned · 29 Jan 2011 at 17:24

The white stripe along one side of it should mean that's the negative side, so point that where the white part is on the circuit board. Insert, turn over and melt a small amount of solder onto the legs.

Fuzz · 29 Jan 2011 at 17:35

He's not putting the cap on the board, can none of you read.

Heat solder on board until it melts, blow the excess off to leave a hole.
Insert wire and resolder from the back.
Solder wires to stubby ends of capacitor in the direction mentioned above.
Apply some heat shrink to any bare wires.
Do not get the cap too hot!
Hot glue gun the caps down into desired position

engstrom0304 · 29 Jan 2011 at 18:01

The soldering iron couldnt melt the solder on the mobo... so I just soldered wires to the underside of the board...

Time to test...

EDIT:

Success!!!

GeX · 29 Jan 2011 at 18:24

you get someone else to do it.

you need to clean the old solder form the board first, get a lower wattage iron and a better tip

Fuzz · 29 Jan 2011 at 18:27

engstrom0304 said:
The soldering iron couldnt melt the solder on the mobo... so I just soldered wires to the underside of the board...

Time to test...

EDIT:

Success!!!

If you couldn't melt the solder on the motherboard how did you solder the wires to it. That makes no sense what so ever

JIM_BOB7813 · 29 Jan 2011 at 18:29

Scubascorpion said:
He's not putting the cap on the board, can none of you read.

To be fair, the OP's "I need to do this" isn't exactly obvious at first glance on a blurry image of a circuit board.

The soldering iron couldnt melt the solder on the mobo... so I just soldered wires to the underside of the board...

Time to test...

Another option is to just get some solder on the iron, flux on the back side of the board and hold the iron against it so it gets some good contact and heats up. It might take a while to get enough heat into the board to melt the solder in the hole though. Then just push the wire through while keeping the iron on the back.