Snap In Capacitor Soldering

Alternate back and forth melting the solder while pulling on the capacitor.

Snap in capacitor soldering.

The aluminum case is fully insulated. This video highlights the advantages of nichicon s wide selection of snap in capacitors and why they re a fantastic fit for ac servomotors inverter controls. Snap in caps feet are bent like a claw so they can be pushed down and snapped into the holes on the pcb. Some tips on how to desolder capacitors from a motherboard with large ground planes and many layers.

This allows them to stay on the board so you can flip it over to solder. Easy ways how to solder unsolder desolder parts and wires with flux duration. To use them make sure your pcb footprint is correct including both the lead spacing and the finished hole diameter after plating. At no time should the soldering iron come in contact with the capacitor body.

If you re talking about capacitors like these then snap in refers to the way the capacitor leads are formed. Contact with the body can cause the sleeving to crack or melt. They act as little springs to grip the pcb drill holes. The same thing is accomplished by bending the legs sideways on regular leaded caps.

Desoldering snap in capacitors heat one leg of the capacitor until the solder melts all the while pulling on the capacitor. The marking of the polarity makes installation easy. Snap in capacitors are used in a wide variety of applications because of the many advantages they provide. When soldering aluminum electrolytic capacitors with a soldering iron the exposure should be limited to 260 c for 10 seconds or 350 c for 3 seconds.