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post #16 of 23
12/22/11 at 8:52pm

I agree. I don't solder often but whenever I do, I want it to work safely and properly. I also have a solder sucker (from Radio Shack, it works fine).

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post #17 of 23
12/22/11 at 9:02pm

A small fan that is not on your work surface( may cause vibration) and sucking air are away not towards your soldering is excellent. 

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post #18 of 23
12/22/11 at 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by whathat View Post

I bought a Pailiccs 3.5mm plug and I'm having a fairly difficult time with soldering the wires to the contacts. Are there any tips that someone could provide? Am I suppose to somehow remove the black portion where the contacts are? Those small smooth contacts makes it impossible for me to solder anything on it. I'm fairly new to soldering and new to head-fi forum community. Photo of the connector is here: http://cdn.head-fi.org/e/e3/e37bed15_PA35.jpg

 

Thanks for the help in advance :)

 

 


A little bit of solder on the connector, and tinning the wire you're going to solder helps tons.

 

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post #19 of 23
1/25/12 at 4:28pm

I'm about to reterminate using these plugs too. But I'm told headphone cabled have 3 wires. Where do I solder each wire to? Which of the two small gold bits shown in the photo are L and R? And where does the ground go?

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post #20 of 23
1/25/12 at 4:46pm

It looks to me like the furtherst back (innermost) should be the tip = left channel, next is the ring (right channel) then furthest forward, and outermost, is the shield (ground). A multimeter (which you should get - they are cheap) will confirm.

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post #21 of 23
1/25/12 at 4:53pm

EDIT: Sorry didn't look at the date of the OP 

 

The best soldering advise is to always tin everything you want to solder together and to use flux on wires.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8jIMoj8XE


Edited by ijchan223 - 1/25/12 at 4:58pm
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post #22 of 23
1/25/12 at 5:17pm

So, is the shield that bit closest to the 3.5m plug itself, that thicker than the other two?

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post #23 of 23
1/25/12 at 7:19pm

Starting from the center out follow this. the center is left, the right is the ring or connector just out side of the center, and the most outside is the ground or sleeve (shield).

 

 


Edited by TheRH - 1/25/12 at 7:22pm
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