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Often with smaller components and in the presence of a more complicated circuit, using additional equipment like helping hands or tweezers can help the process. These essentially aid in manipulating the components and keeping them in a specific position.
 
Often with smaller components and in the presence of a more complicated circuit, using additional equipment like helping hands or tweezers can help the process. These essentially aid in manipulating the components and keeping them in a specific position.
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=== Tool Maintenance ===
 
=== Tool Maintenance ===
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==== Polarity ====
 
==== Polarity ====
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When soldering different components be sure to consider their polarity! Often times certain components will only work when connected a certain way, and example of such a compoenent is an LED. LEDs have a positive and negative end and the component will only work when connected in a certain manner.
    
==== Heat Sensitivity ====
 
==== Heat Sensitivity ====
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