I should point out that my soldering iron is set too high, and if you look closely at the wire wrap version you'll see that the plastic is warped and appears to be scorched in some spots. It still works, but a lower temperature is more appropiate. For the PCB version, the PCB was pre tinned, so I simply added flux, then put the soldering iron on the PCB pad and pressed the flex terminal onto the heated pad. I then went back and added a little solder after everything was tacked down, but even with a high soldering iron temperature, the plastic was fine. You'll want to follow the manufacturer's recommendations for soldering yours, but note that they are pretty robust and can be abused to some degree for prototypes. Plan on doing it correctly for units you plan on distributing. If you do need to do a lot of these, learn about "hot bar soldering". -Adam On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:27 AM, M. Adam Davis wrote: > That plastic film can handle soldering temperatures for 10+ seconds > per terminal. =A0Typically they use Kapton or similar plastic film for > these types of printed flexible circuits, you can check out the > melting point of kapton to get an idea of how nice this stuff is. > > You can see how I dealt with it in several pictures here: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/adavis/sets/72157607726453180/with/471523041= 6/ > > And when I was prototyping I ended up soldering 30awg wires (wire wrap > wire) to each signal: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/adavis/2929877032/ > > My soldering iron is set to 650-700C. =A0Use a lot of flux and it will > heat up very quickly and the solder will flow within a second or > three, so you don't need to keep it on long. > > -Adam > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Manu Abraham wro= te: >> Hi, >> >> Recently I came up across a SSD1308 LCD, but the connector is a thin >> plastic film with copper conductors. I have been thinking a bit what >> would be the right way to deal with such components. Connectors were >> really hard to find as well. Soldering onto them poses 2 risks: pads >> are too close; secondly it's a plastic film. I suppose that I am not >> the first one to use such devices, so I would like to know how others >> really deal with such components. >> >> http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/1424 >> >> >> Best Regards, >> Manu >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .