Originally Posted by TzeYang
Pretty much depending on the mood or the tools I'm using. If i'm using my old Hakko Red 20Watt, yes i wait until the joints cool down a bit, but not too cold otherwise i'd have to reheat the joint again. Now however, since i've gotten the Hakko 936 i've been pretty lazy due to it's temperature control convenience. I just set it to 300 Celcius (the optimum temperature IMO for the solder wire i'm using) and bridging the joints have never been faster!
Oh and definitely do it one by one. (regardless of which tool you're using) If you try to bridge more than 2 joints at once, trust me, the bridges will look ugly.
Ah-hah! This is what my problem was. I normally work at 375 so I can get in and out quickly even when soldering big/difficult parts (which I do more of than stuff on PCB/protoboard), but at that temperature it heats up the bridges
too efficiently causing them to pull apart further down if I don't let it cool enough after each one. I turned it down to around 300 and it lets me chain them together much easier.
Thanks a bunch, TzeYang.
