Hi, What about modding leds on a flashlight? I wanna do this but have to inform well and figure out how to do without damaging something.
- Which is a better solution to solder new LEDs on the MCPCB? Heating up the board touching its girth with a soldering iron, or heating up the bottom of the board by a reflow method using a heating gun at 250-350 C°? It's safe enought as rhe main fact I'm suspecting with is that that's method may burn the bottom copper or printed circuit of the board?
- For the tin, I saw on youtube some vids where people uses a sort of grease instead the classic tin filament. What is its purpose?
How much tin have to put on or the pre existent one is enough?
That's all for the moment, please give me some suggestions. I'm a newbie in this ambit
The flashlight is the M43 noctigan, so you can see online its pics. I think that only 35x35 and 37x37 mm packages are compatible so going to replace with something with a warm tint as Cree XPG, Osram Oslon, or Lumileds TX, T
- Which is a better solution to solder new LEDs on the MCPCB? Heating up the board touching its girth with a soldering iron, or heating up the bottom of the board by a reflow method using a heating gun at 250-350 C°? It's safe enought as rhe main fact I'm suspecting with is that that's method may burn the bottom copper or printed circuit of the board?
- For the tin, I saw on youtube some vids where people uses a sort of grease instead the classic tin filament. What is its purpose?
How much tin have to put on or the pre existent one is enough?
That's all for the moment, please give me some suggestions. I'm a newbie in this ambit
The flashlight is the M43 noctigan, so you can see online its pics. I think that only 35x35 and 37x37 mm packages are compatible so going to replace with something with a warm tint as Cree XPG, Osram Oslon, or Lumileds TX, T
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