I kind of get the impression that for someone in a garage doing a handful of boards a year, the benefits of lead solder outweigh the personal risk/environmental impact, but it’s hard to get any real information online
easily yeah, lead free is not that bad, but it has higher temperature to deal with and being worse for wetting. personal risk is being a dum-dum about washing hands or getting food stuff involved on the same table, environmental is also like don’t throw it in a trash, and especially when you get better, you won’t have a lot of wasted solder
if you are doing it in a garage, gentle fan to remove flux fumes from your breathing area is fine, just take breaks to vent it out
but it’s industrial scale where they are clearly bad, like giant basins of melted solder or ball placement thingies, and then in the trash where lead leaches out into environment, lead doesn’t evaporate that easy. in placing stuff on boards it’s probably equal, for copper wires, maybe i just suck but i have to try a lot to get it attached with lead free solder, it cools too quickly (i’m also doing on needs basis every 6 months or so, not a professional or anything)
I kind of get the impression that for someone in a garage doing a handful of boards a year, the benefits of lead solder outweigh the personal risk/environmental impact, but it’s hard to get any real information online
easily yeah, lead free is not that bad, but it has higher temperature to deal with and being worse for wetting. personal risk is being a dum-dum about washing hands or getting food stuff involved on the same table, environmental is also like don’t throw it in a trash, and especially when you get better, you won’t have a lot of wasted solder
if you are doing it in a garage, gentle fan to remove flux fumes from your breathing area is fine, just take breaks to vent it out
I’d argue that the minor inconveniences of lead-free solder are far outweighed by the health advantages.
but it’s industrial scale where they are clearly bad, like giant basins of melted solder or ball placement thingies, and then in the trash where lead leaches out into environment, lead doesn’t evaporate that easy. in placing stuff on boards it’s probably equal, for copper wires, maybe i just suck but i have to try a lot to get it attached with lead free solder, it cools too quickly (i’m also doing on needs basis every 6 months or so, not a professional or anything)
Yeah, I’m a complete noob
through holes are the easiest thing to attach there is so you’ll do fine