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Quoted from pinballjj:Tin the pads before you solder them together,I would as well put a strip of packing tape or similar on the backside of the strips after soldering to give it a little support
Not sure why you dont buy longer led strips so you dont have to bother with splicing them together?
You have to splice them together in order to get the effect.
Quoted from Jason_Jehosaphat:Off to a terrible start.
My soldering iron's spade tip has destroyed the adjacent LEDS at the joint of the two strips.
Must start over, but can't salvage these strips as they are cut to 39 LED's each. If cut away the damaged LED's from the start of each strip, I will have 38 per side - too few! Once you cut the strips and then butt them together, there are at most four millimeters to work with when soldering. I can't get the solder to truly flow onto the LED's conduction pad. Do I need special solder? I'm using the same, ordinary lead operator's solder that I generally use for pinball projects. Mistake? Has it not got the right flux? I'm quickly feeling like I'm in over my head just because the soldering dexterity required seems exceedingly high.
You definitely need a pointed tip to be able to solder what needs to be soldered. Tin the pad and the wire first. Also, for the particular area you are working with, try to leave as much pad as you can when trimming the LED strips. If the adhesive is not too sticky, you can simply remove and trim those two LEDs off their individual strips. If the replaced LED strips start to separate from the frame, use a little dab of superglue.
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