Whoops...

[MitaPi]

Okay, so I had an idea to take apart my webcam and install it somewhere. ...like into my monitor. Here comes the whoops part. I pulled to hard on the wires and they detatched from the microchip.

I'm at a major loss here guys. COME THROUGH FOR ME PLEASE!?

A. How do I reattch them to the microchip
B. What color is what? There is no microphone on this chip.
C. Is there a way to know where they originally went? Like a certain universal pattern companies use? Example... green, black, brown, white etc etc.

The colors are red, green, white, black and brown.

I can slowly try and figure out the right combo. But in order to do that I have to some how place the wires back onto where they go and get them to stay there without making it permanent so I can switch them around. How would I do this? Tape? And once I figure out the right order... how do I reattach them? Obviously I cant JUST use tape.. it wont last.

[simon275]

You can get good quality webcams these days for really cheap.

When you say you pulled to hard on the wires. The wires leave the chip and go to what because if thats the USB conection then thats easy to fix but if it goes to something else in the cam then you may be in the ****.

[MitaPi]

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h237/MitaPi/untitled-4.jpg

Although the spots where the wires go are much closer together and are very small. I'm not sure on how to even reconnect the wires?

[GT40_GearHead]

were they soldered ???
and if theu were, is the trace still there

EDIT> a pic would help a lot!

[dgrmkrp]

i once soldered wires one the small inputs on a hdd drive.. i had only a huge soldering iron and imagination.. so we used 2 knives to make a kind of.. border.. for the solder.. so it wouldn't stick to the other inputs.. if u have a soldering station, a magnifier and another pair of hands :) you can play with the cam thingy :)
also, if the wires are from a usb connection.. u can easily put the cam back.. if they're not, then i wouldn't really go with testing different configurations, as a chip wont take ~5V easily on its data gates ;)

[MitaPi]

It is a USB webcam. But there are five wires and five very small and VERY VERY close together solder points. I dont have a solder, or a magnifier.. lol or really anything for that matter.. I was thinking super glue? lol

[justblair]

What you need is solder and flux. Preferably some flux cleaner as well,

If you clean the contacts, then flux the area. When you heat the remaining solder it will magically seperate onto the pads.

Last night I soldered a 5mm chip onto a pcb. It had 8 pins on each side ie 4 pins per 5mm. That was without a magnifying glass.

As difficult as it looked to do (and I didn't feel that confident to be honest.) It was a doddle. But that was after watching online videos and folowing the instructions on them to the letter.

I simply could not have done it so easily without the flux. I will clean and flux everything I need to solder from now on, the additional precision you get is amazing.

It also flatters my pretty basic soldering skills in a way that is most satisfying! ;)

[MitaPi]

What is flux?

Can you give me a good link for tutorials on how to do this kind of stuff??