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kirky1991

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Noob Saves Wiimote?!?
« on: July 11, 2008, 07:22:00 PM »
Starting to learn to solder LED's on a wiimote is abit if you will stupid..They are soo small... 1.6 x .8 mm small the SMD led's are i think, Your are better of getting a soldering iron with a very small tip,  Mine is .5 mm but people use smaller! and its a 20w, Then practice on a spare dvd drive/pc motherboard or anything that has SMD componants which you dont need, Practice taking them of, then soldering them back on!

Good luck learning  smile.gif
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lordvader129

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Noob Saves Wiimote?!?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2008, 04:25:00 PM »
are you trying to add a new LED under the A button or some such? if so use a 3mm (i believe you want to solder to TP1 and TP2 on the wiimite board)

if you are talking about replacing the LEDs that are already there, then see kirky's post
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adrian089

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Noob Saves Wiimote?!?
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2008, 12:20:00 AM »
smds are pretty easy i use a 15 watt soldering iron from radioshack with the 1mm thick tip it comes with and im very new to soldering, i think he's trying to replace possibly burned out leds with new ones

and is it tp1 and 2 because ive been trying to find out for myself cuz i wanna light the a and b buttons up?
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