Originally Posted by
Tekin Prez
Still not going to handle kisses from a 800deg soldering iron very well. It is still plastic.. Heat the wire, heat the post, bring them together quickly and they should flow nicely in just few seconds. Most people use too much solder and the iron struggles to heat all the mass.
Not sure we want most people soldering on the circuit board considering the soldering we see on the posts that causes many of the failures when wires break off
Hopefully the new solder post design will help with that.
Actually a quality thermoset PC would give you better resistance against soldering iron kisses, but you do pay a price with slightly less ductility. Heck, the plastic on the fan was more heat resistant than the case itself. The problem with the Gen1 may have been solder for some, but in my case it was the posts themselves wicking away the heat as well as the wire I was using. Glad to see that you've updated the post design; this should be a big improvement.
Desoldering a wire from a few pads is pretty straightforward and only takes a few seconds. If the board and pads are properly designed even a caffeine addict with poor eyesight like me could pull it off. But from some of the comments here, I can see your reluctance to let users get too close to the PCBs. My biggest complaint with the switch hasn't been reliability (as I can just short it if/when it fails. The problem is that it is too short for many applications that have a full body, like scale monster trucks and rock racers. I can't do anything about that and have to always fumble getting to my switch since you don't make it replaceable.