How To Solder Stranded Wire

Tips on how to solder.

How to solder stranded wire. Your encoder should be fine. Cut the two wires to be soldered together to the appropriate length as needed for your project. Hold it on the wire for 3-4 seconds.

If the wire is stranded twist the strands together with your fingers. Strand from some stranded wire is what I use. There is no reason you cant.

Screw 16 into terminal strips or use crimps or solder into large holes on pcb. The code is silent on this issues if you are asking about regular building wire. Silicone paste also known as dielectric grease.

How to Solder Stranded Wire to Solid Wire. Clip the lead on the resistor so its about the size of the encoder lead. If the wires are for low voltage application such as connecting 12V up to LED Strip lighting then you should consider just using twist on wire connectors instead of soldering.

Make sure your soldering iron is fully heated and touch the tip to the end of one of the wires. If you have a job specification that requires soldering then they paid to have it done. Resistors sometimes dont solder well if they are old so clean the leads up.

3 Heat the shrink tube to make it shrink down around the wire. 1 Strip the wires of about 12 in. Place tip of soldering iron at the top of the connection and solder wires.