Not only is she soldering fine joints by hand at a steady pace, but she's also inspecting them as she goes. Note at the end of the clip she reworks a bad joint.
I, for one, hate solder joints that have variable amounts of human sweat and/or blood mixed in with the flux. Doing this by hand, without even gloves, guarantees larger amounts of scrap from production and larger numbers of early failures in the product. Screw whoever does this!
The LEDs are yellow and surface-mount, rarely soldered by hand. She’s nowhere near those. I’m not sure the reason for hand soldering to the big pads in between
The yellow is the phosphor, those are white LEDs. She's soldering the pads connecting the ends of strips. The strips look like they're either in scored-but-unseparated sheets or maybe just adheared together from behind. She pre-soldered the last (and presumably first) connection to hold the sheets aligned.
There is so much wrong with this, I'll just focus on the good parts. The way they are continuously feeding the solder wire is pretty slick. Yeah, that's it.
I've always found that women are way better at tasks that require finesse, but anything with power related to it will always be held by men until genetics decides to even the playing field. God damn that was nice work.
yeesh, you just had to come out of the gate and yell "I'M SEXIST TRASH" before complimenting someone. I've got nothing that will even remotely help you at this point, get some fucking therapy.
It wasn't meant to be insulting, but you can see it that way if you wish. It was more of an observation of how incredible her talent is since I doubt many men could replicate it. The power bit was worded poorly but the point still stands. If you think that women do not excel in areas of finesse over men while men outshine them in physical power-driven areas, I cannot do much for you. Just do a bit of research instead of throwing insults like it matters on the internet or keep at it, no big deal.
I am not trying to offend anyone but make an observation based on information I've read over time. Women seem to excel in areas that require finesse more than men do. You can downvote me if you want, but if you look at the information, it is there. If I am wrong, prove me wrong. I am happy to absorb more information and change my opinion. If not, you can keep throwing insults and thinking it makes a difference on the internet. Have a good one!
Why is a human doing this, when it clearly a job a machine can do? Yes, for her it's a job and she gets paid for it. However, this is a **horrible** job for a human to have when a machine could do it. ugh this is disgusting.
Working 9 to 9, making 75c an hour; Soldering LEDs, don’t have time to take a shower; If you complain, you lower social credit; It’s enough to make you crazy if you let it!
That's the easiest job to automate, "standing solder wave machine" I think it's called, the fact she does that by hand means something, I don't know what that is
Those solder joints are cold, the metal the solder is connecting to has to heat up as well as the solder for good bond. If that isn't sped up, those are weak and will fail much faster than needed.
I have 50 feet of RGB LED strips in my ceiling that have been on for at least 12h a day for several YEARS. I have never had a solder joint fail, but I have had the LED chips themselves die. I use a lot of LED strips and I dont think Ive ever seen a joint fail. And I buy mine from Aliexpress and Wish lol
A lot of solder joint cracking comes from having to use RoHS compliant solder. The lack of lead makes the solder more brittle and sensitive to movement. There's less lead in electronics now, but the failure rate has increased so that there's now far more electronic goods going to landfill that would otherwise be useful for many years to come.
In general yes. In this particular case the solder is often sub-par even for lead free, and the soldering is done too fast. The design of the strips allows for a bit of overlap where you can get a good solder joint but if you do it too fast you end up with a bead sitting on top of the strip without wetting into the overlap. You can almost always see that there has been no wetting between the strips after the joint cracks and comes apart.
Takes a team of engineers and skilled technicians to make a factory robot, but leave two factory workers alone for 15 minutes and they'll make a factory worker.
A machine makes the strips, but I don't know if there is a machine to attach the strips together. When you buy a big spool of them there's a join every few meters.
GBMaker
She has good technique.
LyvPhreeOarDye
I burnt my finger watching this.
HEXtheDark
mikeybagodonuts
That kind of talent must go for at least $10.50 and hour.
WoofBastard
Sweet smokin' Jeebuz, imagine if this was your job all day every day, probably for a ghastly number of hours a week. Kill. Me. Now.
potatoardvarkhybrid
just like grandma used to make
edgareplekjekk
That error correction is probably why a machine does not do that.
Tarmaccian
Not only is she soldering fine joints by hand at a steady pace, but she's also inspecting them as she goes. Note at the end of the clip she reworks a bad joint.
AreYouSureAboutThat
astronomypictures
wow
GoodLookingFatOldGuy2
I, for one, hate solder joints that have variable amounts of human sweat and/or blood mixed in with the flux. Doing this by hand, without even gloves, guarantees larger amounts of scrap from production and larger numbers of early failures in the product. Screw whoever does this!
Columbus43219
Yeah, i was wondering if this explains why so many fail, or why so many work.
RancidSebastian
The tech we're viewing this one brought to you by her slave labors
5ing
The LEDs are yellow and surface-mount, rarely soldered by hand. She’s nowhere near those. I’m not sure the reason for hand soldering to the big pads in between
Ankylosaur
The yellow is the phosphor, those are white LEDs. She's soldering the pads connecting the ends of strips. The strips look like they're either in scored-but-unseparated sheets or maybe just adheared together from behind. She pre-soldered the last (and presumably first) connection to hold the sheets aligned.
WoofBastard
Cheap Chinese slave labor ...
GlobalImageServiceCat
Could be Vietnameses these days.
WoofBastard
True. Wherever it is, I doubt if they're being compensated fairly for the repetitive motion injury this is going to cause them.
cbale2000
Now if only the adhesive they put on the back of these LED strips wasn't absolute dogshit literally every single time. >_>
herppavitunderrpa23
well i think that's the problem. you want strips that use glue.
Redyls
unless those are heated properly. wont all those be cold solders and not work well?
Ghlargh
As someone who has bought quite a lot of cheap LED strips, the solder splices fail a lot. Soldered too fast to bond properly.
Dunothar
Trust me, anything above 2 seconds of heating damages those strips. Thwt solder flows really nicely onto the joints, they will hold just fine.
misterCT
This girl flux
bripi
so terrible yet sooooo funny!!
isthisjunkmail
Neat.
dudehiemer
There is so much wrong with this, I'll just focus on the good parts. The way they are continuously feeding the solder wire is pretty slick. Yeah, that's it.
PrincessWendyB
The fumes!
ScarletEmerald
It's the just flux that makes the smoke. The vapor point of lead is much higher than the temp of the iron
PrincessWendyB
Good. It looks awful!
Noob3rts
I've always found that women are way better at tasks that require finesse, but anything with power related to it will always be held by men until genetics decides to even the playing field. God damn that was nice work.
TheMouseOfMadness
yeesh, you just had to come out of the gate and yell "I'M SEXIST TRASH" before complimenting someone. I've got nothing that will even remotely help you at this point, get some fucking therapy.
Noob3rts
It wasn't meant to be insulting, but you can see it that way if you wish. It was more of an observation of how incredible her talent is since I doubt many men could replicate it. The power bit was worded poorly but the point still stands. If you think that women do not excel in areas of finesse over men while men outshine them in physical power-driven areas, I cannot do much for you. Just do a bit of research instead of throwing insults like it matters on the internet or keep at it, no big deal.
NebulousToucan
@Noob3rts - you do realize what a prick you sound, right?
Noob3rts
I am not trying to offend anyone but make an observation based on information I've read over time. Women seem to excel in areas that require finesse more than men do. You can downvote me if you want, but if you look at the information, it is there. If I am wrong, prove me wrong. I am happy to absorb more information and change my opinion. If not, you can keep throwing insults and thinking it makes a difference on the internet. Have a good one!
greggbert
That's my dad dude, stop assuming.
bripi
Why is a human doing this, when it clearly a job a machine can do? Yes, for her it's a job and she gets paid for it. However, this is a **horrible** job for a human to have when a machine could do it. ugh this is disgusting.
LosChimpos
Working 9-9. Making 75c an hour.
weidermeijer
She could be making $10 the hard way…
NaiyaSparkleHero
By being her own boss, right?
vigilante397
Working 9 to 9, making 75c an hour;
Soldering LEDs, don’t have time to take a shower;
If you complain, you lower social credit;
It’s enough to make you crazy if you let it!
vigilante397
Or something like that, I don't really listen to country.
OnlyForTheBest
Only 100,000 more to go before break.
arthurvanhoudt
She does about 4-5 per second. So that’s about 6 hrs!! Wow.
cyanideremark
comes back from break to find job has been automated by robot
WhatAreYouTalkingAboutEh
That's the easiest job to automate, "standing solder wave machine" I think it's called, the fact she does that by hand means something, I don't know what that is
KingORedLions
It means she's paid less than it cost to run the machine.
zombiebatman
Could be even faster if she held her tool closer to the tip
jackal696
*hands you a pee bottle
Winstitutionalized
If you’re lucky.
HandoB4Javert
drziod
Slow down quagmire
mushroomking
I wou... Quagmire wouldn't waste time with a bottle.
AnUpvote
justplainvanilla
pdp1
Aimlockbelch
Gotta love stock photos that make no sense
Cthulhudreams
The other thing that bothers me is that there's no static mat
pm1001
Sizzle sizzle
Makerofthingsmasherofstuff
But... Wait.. what...
WasteGameOnPoint
Ssssssssssssssssssssssssss
TheLeanWolf
At first I was Eh? Then I was Oh!
Sickpup666
Thanks, this was the first thing I thought of too
fformulaa
Why does it smell like grampas ol burn pits?
Skooz
EasternSun1
I can verify this is accurate
AtsaMattaForMe
melaveikko
Lolled
cyanideremark
She's not soldering, she's tap testing the CMOS battery for charge
Dybidude5
That's why she wears the safety glasses
DunnowForgot
Yellow safety glasses even, is she afraid someone will turn a laser on her?
cyanideremark
Never know when it could be one of those self detonating batteries, eh?
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krylani
Could be a stock photo composited in.
Sternfeuer
Maybe they rented the location to do stock photos of stuff like that. Whatever that is...
JimboTCB
"sitting in front of a computer looking at rows of data? that's not proper STEM, get some equipment out and do science for the promo pictures"
Da3n
In case you ever wondered why cheap Chinese led strips suck so bad...
vcgetdown
Yeah, my first reaction was that is going to be a shitty job done but watching it it seems at least reasonable
ExTechOp
She does back up when she spots a problem.
Tarmaccian
Why? What is it that's being done wrong here that would diminish the quality of the product?
SagansLab
Those solder joints are cold, the metal the solder is connecting to has to heat up as well as the solder for good bond. If that isn't sped up, those are weak and will fail much faster than needed.
Ulthirm
Not that it is but it could be on a hot plate. Plus the pads are tiny
AK90
I have 50 feet of RGB LED strips in my ceiling that have been on for at least 12h a day for several YEARS. I have never had a solder joint fail, but I have had the LED chips themselves die. I use a lot of LED strips and I dont think Ive ever seen a joint fail. And I buy mine from Aliexpress and Wish lol
Banana369
The metal pad being soldered to is tiny and has so little thermal mass that it will heat to the required temperature almost instantly.
ExTechOp
Also, the huge-ass iron (probably also running over-hot) she is using does likely help here. She does back up when she spots a problem.
Ghlargh
And they do, i had to re-solder the splices on so many strips where the joint just cracked. Crap solder alloy is also a huge problem.
Banana369
A lot of solder joint cracking comes from having to use RoHS compliant solder. The lack of lead makes the solder more brittle and sensitive to movement. There's less lead in electronics now, but the failure rate has increased so that there's now far more electronic goods going to landfill that would otherwise be useful for many years to come.
Ghlargh
In general yes. In this particular case the solder is often sub-par even for lead free, and the soldering is done too fast. The design of the strips allows for a bit of overlap where you can get a good solder joint but if you do it too fast you end up with a bead sitting on top of the strip without wetting into the overlap. You can almost always see that there has been no wetting between the strips after the joint cracks and comes apart.
charondaboatman
There’s a machine for that.
Columbus43219
Reminds me of the Ron White story. He was fired from the sandwich factory for putting his dick in the pickle slicer. She was fired too.
charondaboatman
tanebot
*she's the machine for that
FloodingWaters
Machines break and need repairs. Peasants are replaceable
tanebot
Takes a team of engineers and skilled technicians to make a factory robot, but leave two factory workers alone for 15 minutes and they'll make a factory worker.
apLundell
A machine makes the strips, but I don't know if there is a machine to attach the strips together. When you buy a big spool of them there's a join every few meters.
wartoaster
Solder pool could do it from underneath
Nivvi
People in china are cheaper
Inmate45
kingkongkeom
Yep...
Nivvi
Like Ive seen clip of a girl doing one loop and I was impressed. But this? This is scary, 3 seconds to blast off.
wababooba
It’s because when they break, you don’t need to fix them or buy a new one. You can just throw them away and replace them with the next in line.
Nivvi
And there is always a line
SergeyPrkl
and 5 lines to the first line
cyanideremark
for the moment
Iamthebeekeepernow
Production will the move on to the next cheapest country I guess. Curious what chinas economic model will be after the „cheap work“-phase
BigFather
They've already passed that over the last decade as a middle class continues to develop. The cheapest labor and production has moved to poorer places.