Am I the only one who automatically goes look at the history when I see a withdrawn post?
I just felt it was further derailing the conversation so I decided to remove it
Ah right I see. I have a (much larger, surely) spot welding station like that, to weld tabs to Li-ion battery cells, to make battery packs - because battery cells donât take too kindly to being heated by a soldering iron. I didnât think chips would survive the process though.
Ah, yes the unsung hero Clair Patterson. He was also the man who accurately estimated the age of the Earth using lead-lead dating methods. He found it impossible to remove all lead from his lab space, and thereby discovered the extent of lead contamination due to tetraethyllead that was added to gasoline. Then he started a crusade to stop it, and now here we are, slightly less dumb as a result. (Now if only we could start a crusade to remove all this dumb contamination)
Oh wait, I think you may have meant Dr. Herb Needleman
Like trying to prevent Entropy. A noble undertaking, but ultimately doomed.
Still, I organize stuff and try to educate.
Interesting.
Put them all under a spoiler tag with a warning and a source.
The Bismuth and Antimony in low-melt solders can harm you, but not in as small quantities as lead can. The most common eutectic composition for unleaded solder is 96.5% Tin 3.0% Silver and 0.5% Copper, none of which are harmful even if you ate the whole spool.
As long as itâs sealed and stays that way there are only two potential issues I see; the sealant and the outside being sterile.
The sealant must be 100% compatible and nonreactive.
The electronics should be fully encapsulated in the sealant with no gaps between glass and sealant.
If the sealant bond fails to the glass and creates a gap, bacteria and fungus can grow/colonize as they would be sheltered from the immune system there. Not good.
The other issue is all the outside surfaces not being or staying sterile doing insertion. Basically youâre creating a deep sealed punctor wound. Most times you probably will get away with it however if it infected it could get really nasty. Sepsis and cellulitis can move rapidly and become limb/life threatening in hours.
Other infections can be slower growing but especially fungal ones may require the removal of all infected tissues to cure.
These little monsters are no joke⌠and spores are some the hardest to sterilize.*
Consider the implications when you place an implant near tendons, nerves and critical structures if invasive debridement becomes necessaryâŚ
*Isopropyl alcohol will not sterilize the skin; any contact between implant and external skin needs to be avoided.
Sterilization of the implant itâs self is dicing too⌠short of using an autoclave.
Minimize (>5 minutes, less is best) the time to wound is open and make sure the skin sides are match evenly including the deep tissue layers. They will bond in less then an hour if done right and be mostly heal within 3 to 7 days. If you use crazy glue, sides must be aligned tight together and not seeping fluid.
Allow none of the glue below the skin surface as it will be rejected and cause delayed healing.
Otherwise butterfly stitch it. Sutures increase tissue damage, infection risk and delay healing.
Iâve done a lot of self surgery, lacerations closings and got away with it. Using peroxide or isopropyl.
That doesnât mean you will or even myself the next time; plenty of room and ways into the hurt locker.
Best to minimize how many times you put yourself in harms way.
My scars are my tatsâŚ
Not sure you can ever truly sterilize skin. You can get it as aseptic as possible, but to be sterile would kill your skin also.
They are the glass is sealed around them (no additional sealant. Think of it like a valve or nixie tube (one end closed electronics put in other end heated and sealed)
Skin is never and can never be truly sterile.
Which is why with the x series implants they are sterilised pre loaded in the implanters (open and use)
X series implant take about 10s flex take a little longer but almost always <2m.
Donât, if you want to use glue get skin glue.
Side not this is really off topic ⌠this topic is supposed to be about soldering station for beginners.
Well if they insist on using high temp ie no lead solder theyâre going have a real rough ride.
Most have trouble learning to solder with lead based.
The lead is an excellent wetting agent; without it the solder doesnât want to flow or stick.
The flux is less effective as well. That also means where I can burn through some surface oxidation with leaded and a good flux, you canât with no lead.
Surfaces need to be a lot more pristine. After decades of doing this I know have real good idea how well a novice will do.
Cold solder joints are the bane of assembly. Extremely hard to spot if you do see it when youâre screwing it up.
Novice assemblers rarely doâŚ
The longer it takes to complete the joint, the more chance thermal damage plus at the higher working temp of no lead solders youâre already way above the semiconductorâs critical temp⌠and those pads arenât leads ie almost no thermal insulation between where your soldering and the semiconductorâs junction(s).
So if you arenât fast, itâs going be toast as you -try- to get the no lead solder to wet and adhere but it just wants to paste up, add more solder and heat⌠yes, well.
Lol, try solder iron flowing a fine pitch flat pack on⌠it wonât work well if at all. Youâll make a big mess and my leaded solder one will look perfect almost like it was reflowed⌠and no cold joints.
Bah-ha-ha-ha!
LMAO⌠you been warned.
TFF⌠you -really- should be concerned when you see me having this much funđ
The cold solder joint issue was describing a problem with an x-series⌠so if uses tin solder to connect the inductor leads to the carrier board.
Yes like that, but youâre station runs current through the metal being welded (as do all normal electric welding systems) but mine doesnât. It uses a pulse to flash heat a special welding tip which basically melts the metals together, bonding them without solder.
You can easily solder LI cells and coin bats, done it.
Flat packs and SM are dicier to hand solderâŚ
You heed a wide enough chisel tip to transfer the heat quickly, pretinned wire/clean surfaces and be fast about it. Donât cook it.
I use 765-85F temp setting.
Use rosin core lead based 63/37 solder⌠better wetting, lower temp.