A Cold Solder
In "A Cold Solder" I had to add the components (electrical components) of the Starlight Water Design Kit to the Starlight Water circuit board with solder. When soldering the components A few pieces have polarity, which means it matters how you place them and solder them onto the board. The pieces with polarity are the capacitors, all of the LED's, and the ICs.
In this step, I soldered 3 capacitors, 1 potentiometer, 1 resistor, and a USB to DC outlet onto the circuit board. The capacitors all have different values, one is 104 pF (power factor), another is 10 uF (microfarad), the last one is 220 uF. The potentiometer is 10k (ohms). The resistor is 10k (ohms).
In this step, I soldered 10 triodes onto the circuit board. The triodes were triode 9013.
In this step, I soldered 2 IC's (Integrated Circuit) onto the circuit board. 1 of the ICs was an IC- CD4014. The other IC was an IC- NE555.
In this step, I soldered on 9 resistors onto the circuit board. The resistors were all 200 Ohm resistors.
In this step, I soldered 11 resistors onto the circuit board. The resistors were all 1k Ohm resistors.
In this step, I soldered on 9 LEDs onto the circuit board. 5 of the LEDs were red, and 4 of them were yellow.
In this step, I soldered on 8 LEDs onto the circuit board. 4 of the LEDs were red, and 4 of them were yellow.
The pattern of adding 8 LEDs, 4 yellow and 4 red, continued for the next five steps (seen below). The oder of the photos goes from left to right for the first 3 photos, then down for the next photos, and finally look to the right for the last photo (the last photo in the pattern is the largest photo of the 5 photos.
This is the final product. It is a finished Starlight Water Design Kit project. In this step I started with continuing the pattern from the the past 6 steps but to finish the project off I surrounded the center red LED with a ring of 8 yellow LEDs.
443E3BD8-49A5-4F50-9DBE-D4E6BC40B2A3.MP4In the video above I add power to my circuit board for the first time. As you can see the first few rings of LED's don't work. This problem was really challenging to figure out. After checking to make sure every thing was soldered on properly, which included making sure every component had solder connecting it to the board, and making sure there were not solder bridges which meant that no components was soldered together with another component or the prongs of the component were not soldered together. After getting help form Dr. Taylor, we concluded that either I solder the LEDs one wrong and messed up their polarity, or that there was something wrong With the board itself.
Since my board did not work properly I decided to solder on a battery pack so that my circuit board did not need a outlet to turn on.