DIY with Quantum Boards

Budzbuddha

Well-Known Member
is there a trick to tinning stranded wire??? I can't get this to work to save my life... I'm trying to put together my lights, but to connect the power cord to the AC side of the driver using the waterproof connectors, I need to tin the stranded wire on the driver and the power cord. I've literally been trying to get this to work for two days now and I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've watched youtube videos and looked at several tutorials with pictures online and every one shows the exact same thing and makes it look so simple but I cannot get it to work for some reason!!! I'm trying to heat the wire with the soldering iron and then touching the solder to it but it WILL NOT melt and coat the wire!! I can only get the solder to melt if I touch it directly to the iron, but then it's still really hard to get a droplet to stick to the wire or coat it... it just beads up and drops off.. I've wasted so much solder and I'm losing cm of cable with every failed attempt..... what am I doing wrong here?? I'm using a 55W soldering iron set to 430 C and lead-free rosin-core silver solder that melts at 422 C.... help! I'm so frustrated... I'm literally at the point of wanting to just sell everything to someone who's more DIY inclined because I'm honestly hating this and really just wishing I'd bought a pre-assembled light... :/
Buy " soldering flux " .... It's in a small jar ... Problem solved

3 dollars ... Lowe's

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Balko186

Active Member
Is there any eye protection I should get when I open my tent with these? I always feel like I'm damaging my eyes when I look at my plants lol, usually put on normal sun glasses but still gives me a headache
 

Seedjunky

Member
Thanks Stephen I'm only use to wiring in series.. never doubted your answer for the record but when searching the hlg website I came across this pic of how to wire and gettin from others opinions is has confused me. Anyways at the end of the day all I'm wondering now ,does this picture from hlgs website accomplish what your trying to explain to me? With the 4802100b. Thanks and final question about this lol
Any thoughts on using 4 of these boards running at 700ma in a 2x2.5 gorilla tent?
https://horticulturelightinggroup.com/pages/board-guide
i think an hlg 3202800 in paralell should do the trick , maybe others wanna chime in?
 

robincnn

Well-Known Member
Thanks Stephen I'm only use to wiring in series.. never doubted your answer for the record but when searching the hlg website I came across this pic of how to wire and gettin from others opinions is has confused me. Anyways at the end of the day all I'm wondering now ,does this picture from hlgs website accomplish what your trying to explain to me? With the 4802100b. Thanks and final question about this lol
Both are Correct
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