How to solder wires to target boards

Greetings,
  This is very primitive, but how do you solder wires to target boards
that have holes and not solid pads (eg. MSP430 EZ board from TI) ?

Also what wire thickness do you recommend using?

Thank you,

-- A

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:20:37 -0000, amerdsp <amerdsp@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Greetings,
>  This is very primitive, but how do you solder wires to target boards
>that have holes and not solid pads (eg. MSP430 EZ board from TI) ?
>
>Also what wire thickness do you recommend using?

I'd probably solder on a 2x7 pin header and either use jumper wires
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8430#
or similar, or a 14-pin IDC header and ribbon cable. The pre-made
jumpers are convenient but it's also easy enough to roll yer own.

If you do want/need to make a permanent solder connection, you're
probably not pulling more than a few 10s of mA even on Vcc/Gnd so
whatever "hookup wire" you had around would be okay.

amerdsp wrote:

> Greetings,
>   This is very primitive, but how do you solder wires to target boards
> that have holes and not solid pads (eg. MSP430 EZ board from TI) ?
> 
> Also what wire thickness do you recommend using?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -- A
> 
DON'T use any of these:
http://www.smithequipment.com/

On Aug 25, 10:20 am, amerdsp <amer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>   This is very primitive, but how do you solder wires to target boards
> that have holes and not solid pads (eg. MSP430 EZ board from TI) ?

You can also buy the DIP part from Digikey/Mouser/etc and use a
breadboard.
You just need to connect 3 (or 4) wires to the usb board for
programming (power optional).
--
mmihai

Rich Webb wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:20:37 -0000, amerdsp <amerdsp@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Greetings,
>> This is very primitive, but how do you solder wires to target boards
>>that have holes and not solid pads (eg. MSP430 EZ board from TI) ?
>>
>>Also what wire thickness do you recommend using?
> 
> 
> I'd probably solder on a 2x7 pin header and either use jumper wires
> http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8430#
> or similar, or a 14-pin IDC header and ribbon cable. The pre-made
> jumpers are convenient but it's also easy enough to roll yer own.
> 
> If you do want/need to make a permanent solder connection, you're
> probably not pulling more than a few 10s of mA even on Vcc/Gnd so
> whatever "hookup wire" you had around would be okay.


If it doesn't get moved around or bent a lot I often take a piece of 
CAT-5 and unravel some wires out of that. Then you have eight different 
color codes which makes the connections at the other end easier.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

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