I am trying to solder a tiny connector onto a PCB board. There are 30 contacts on this connector, each contact is 0.2mm thick. I am having a very hard time 1) lining up the connector on the board & getting it to stay there and 2) soldering the actual wires on the connector to the traces on the PCB.
I was told I could just throw a bunch of solder over the wires and then just suck up the excess solder with some wick. However when checking for continuity, there's always breaks and I have shorts as well (and I also tend to melt the plastic a bit which probably adds to the problem).
What advice can you give for soldering small connectors with very thin wire contacts onto a PCB? The PCB boards are kind of expensive & I only have a limited supply left (less than 5). I've "destroyed" 3 boards so far by only trying to solder this connector on.
The connector is an XF2L-3035-1. I'm a noob at soldering in general so this soldering task is very frustrating for me...but I have to learn [and quick!].
Any tips will help, thanks.
I was told I could just throw a bunch of solder over the wires and then just suck up the excess solder with some wick. However when checking for continuity, there's always breaks and I have shorts as well (and I also tend to melt the plastic a bit which probably adds to the problem).
What advice can you give for soldering small connectors with very thin wire contacts onto a PCB? The PCB boards are kind of expensive & I only have a limited supply left (less than 5). I've "destroyed" 3 boards so far by only trying to solder this connector on.
The connector is an XF2L-3035-1. I'm a noob at soldering in general so this soldering task is very frustrating for me...but I have to learn [and quick!].
Any tips will help, thanks.