Spring 2016 RoFi: Soldering Servo Driver

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Christopher Andelin (Project Manager)

Mario Ramirez (Systems Engineer)

Qui Du (Manufacturing Engineer)

Andrew Laqui (Electronics and Controls Engineer)

Henry Ruff (Electronics and Controls Engineer)

Soldering Servo Driver

Qui Du (Manufacturing Engineering)

 

Due to the transition from the Arduino Mega to the Arduino Uno it is necessary that we implementh the servo driver to provide the pins we need.  Below are the steps I used in soldering our header pins to our 16 channel servo.

 

Tools

  • Solder
  • Soldering Iron Cleaner
  • Soldering Station
  • Soldering Iron
  • Unsolder Pump
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Image 1: Soldering Tools

Servo Driver soldering process

  1. Turn on the soldering station and wait for the soldering iron to reach the desired temperature
  2. Clean the servo driver and header pins
  3. Install the header pins into the servo driver
  4. Heat the connection of the pin and the driver with the tip of the soldering iron for a few seconds, and then apply the solder at the connection
  5. Allow the solder to cool

Note: Only apply heat to the connection; do not apply heat to the solder.

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Image 2: Servo Driver

Soldering Completed:

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Image 3: Final Product

Source

https://learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/16-channel-pwm-servo-driver.pdf.