Spectrum Analyzer Solder Kit

Materials

On the right is all the components I used to create the Spectrum Analyzer thankfully I wasn't missing any of the componets.

Resistors

The first thing I soldered on to the circuit board was the resistors. The only challenge I ran into was making sure I didnt mix up the 200 resistors with the 200k resistors.

LEDs

The LEDs weren't difficult in soldering but they were difficult in how monotonus the task was. I spent 3-4 days just soldering LEDs and it didn't fell rewarding. Also I soldered on the Ceramic Resistors but forgot to take a picture of them alone.

Everything Else

There is alot of componets after the LEDs but, I only ran into one issue when trying to solder them and it took me half a day to solder them on. The issue I ran into was that my longer chip holder was missing a prong, thankfully Mr. Budzichowski had an extra so I was able to finish the project.

Final Result

Plugging in the spectrum analyzer I ran into no issues and it had pretty good sensitvity to begin with. It was a fun project to get us back into soldering.

Summary

The project was to make a spectrum analyzer and practice our on board soldering. I only ran into 2 issues throughout the project. One was trying to keep the LEDs on the board when I flip it over. Thankfully Andrew Puky was able to come up with a solution for this by putting a piece of paper over the leds so they dont flip over. The other issue I ran into was soldering on the button since it would slid around a bit since it was place directly onto the board and did not go through the board. I was able to solve this problem by using tweasers to hold it in place while my soldering iron already had solder on it.

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