[Elecraft] Grounding wire for xtal cans soldering tips

Stuart Rohre [email protected]
Wed Sep 11 19:16:01 2002


With a temperature controlled soldering iron, good sized flat blade tip, and
Multicore solder, I found it easy to tin the cans first slightly above the
seal, out of harm's way, and then solder the bus wire that had already been
soldered in the provided hole on the board.  At the frequency of the filter,
the length of bus wire thus used will not impair the filter response.
Make sure the cans are clean before tinning, to facilitate doing this with
minimum heat.  I tend to like to use the higher heat setting on my station,
and solder more quickly before heat can build up in the can too much.  Also,
pretin the bus wire end, and you will need minimal heat to join the can and
wire.
72, Stuart K5KVH