I hate it when I read all the guides and stuff still doesn’t make any sense. . . . ugh.
Ok, soldering iron, check. Nice controlled temp one, goes up to 700f.
Solder, check, electrical joint hobbyist stuff non-conductive and the whole bit.
Resistors, check, bought huge variety pack, figured out what I needed later, but hey, whatever.
Wire; check, 24guage threaded just like various guides said (always buy threaded wire and the like)
Practiced soldering wires together like guides said, ok, that works.
Tried to solder resistor to wire. . . .
Uh, ok. Isn’t supposed to get quite that hot I don’t think. . . heh.
Basic question is that without doing various icky non-nice-NobodyElsesStuffLooksLikeThat ways of pre-connecting the wire to the terminal of the resistor;
How the HELL am I supposed to connect the wire to the terminal AND solder it at the same time?
I have a rather wacky setup used to hold wires in place and such, ok, works fine, but when doing wires normally they are wound together a bit first (again, as per various guides say to do), and, err, heh. Does not work with wire and resistor on breadboard (uh, one site said it is perfboard. )
Oh yah, and why doesn’t my multimeter give me a valid ‘continuity’ beep reading when going between the two terminals of a resistor? Works fine for the wire, but NONE of the resistors I bought seem to give a reading of any sorts when I test for continuity.
Tests fine for resistance though.