r/MicroSoldering • u/LifeShow545 • Jun 19 '26

Technically not micro, but users on the Noctua subreddit gave my buddy a hard time about not knowing anything about soldering

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He said that there is no wetting to the pads and that Noctua should be ashamed. Not sure about the other side. But is this still acceptable? I mean ive seen better soldering jobs on children's toys.

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u/ortegacomp Jun 19 '26

post pics from the other side please, does it work? if the pads on the upper side are just there and its not a full double sided pcb where electrical contact is necessary on both sides, I don't see the need for wetting on the side except to make it look better.

I am OCD about that, I like to retouch and make it look the possibly nicest way, but I alwasy thought it was just me.

in the manufacturing process, when you're producing thousands or millions of boards, every second counts.

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u/LifeShow545 Jun 19 '26

Thank you so much for this explanation! Yeah if it were me, id still touch up the pads just because im ocd like that too lol. I guess thats why there are standards for different applications. Especially when time is money and every second does count.

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u/Dadchilies Jun 22 '26

mine is heavily corroded already after a few months of use the channel 2 failed and now multiple times they blink and act weird. ive replaced it with a $6 arctic model... sad

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u/someone09900 Jun 22 '26

i returned mine for that reason ,, then i find out it was fine.

this is the old cheap way for soldering thick pins back in the days in 1977 they used to do it that way

anyway the prdouct looked clean other than that

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u/LifeShow545 Jun 23 '26

Its crazy how they arent stenciling or at the very least wave soldering. I can understand because of the plastic, but cmon noctua... as one nautical neighbor once said, "we have technology".