Hi there,
These high power LED's are surface mount and should be soldered with a hot plate or oven maybe.
But anyone have any success soldering them by hand, perhaps with a home made heat sink of some type?
It's a tricky thing to try to do because the heat sink surface is on the back and so are the anode and cathode connections. Normally they surface mount solder them to a specially designed MCPCB with the right pattern on it, but i want to find another way to do it.
But also if you have done it with a hot plate i'd like to hear about that too, thanks.
These high power LED's are surface mount and should be soldered with a hot plate or oven maybe.
But anyone have any success soldering them by hand, perhaps with a home made heat sink of some type?
It's a tricky thing to try to do because the heat sink surface is on the back and so are the anode and cathode connections. Normally they surface mount solder them to a specially designed MCPCB with the right pattern on it, but i want to find another way to do it.
But also if you have done it with a hot plate i'd like to hear about that too, thanks.