https://hkauhanen.fi/tags/electronics/ Recent content in Electronics on Henri Kauhanen Hugo en-gb Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://hkauhanen.fi/blog/zd-915/ Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://hkauhanen.fi/blog/zd-915/ <p>My electronics hobby sometimes requires me to desolder components &ndash; mostly traditional through-hole components &ndash; off of printed circuit boards. Since this hasn&rsquo;t been such a frequent occurrence, however, so far I&rsquo;ve got by by using desoldering wick and one of those spring-operated desoldering pumps.</p> <p>Recently though I wanted to salvage a power supply from a diseased tape deck for a project I was working on. Having done this, I was left with a PCB full of potentially useful components. As it would have taken an eternity to desolder those with the wick and pump, however, I finally pulled the trigger on a real negative pressure desoldering station.</p>