I spent way too many years of my younger life soldering in poorly ventilated areas w/nothing pulling fumes out of my face (insert joke here)
Now I pretty much refuse to do a single joint without.
Just any fan placed infront of the iron pulling the fumes away is good enough. You don’t have to have serious ventilation, just getting the initial fumes out of your face. It’s moreso for the rosin than the lead (I think)
If you have small kids or pets in the house, that’s when you’d want to consider real ventilation. Like, I think a bird would actually die quickly.
You can always solder outside if doing low volume tho.
But yeah. Fan.
Cleaning up your joints with a bristle brush & isopropyl is also good practice, but not a requirement.
Buy standalone rosin flux while you’re getting new solder tho. If just a puck of paste, keep the puck around but also mix a bit of the paste w/isopropyl & put it in a syringe with a fine-tip luer lock or something. Very helpful to have around.
A wet sponge & metal scrunchy is also good if you don’t already have them - I haven’t used unleaded in a while, but I think leaded generally makes a bit more mess on your tip to regularly clean off.
That’s completely fine, no need for more fishpaper there as long as the P groups are held together by hot glue and/or fiberglass tape. I also use this method for similar layouts and I think I saw Glyphiks used it too a while ago.
I do the same, its fine for straight stacks. Personally, i like em closer to the shoulder, but probably doesnt matter.
Staggered would need 2 dots or strips.
I do dots all the time. I like it because you get fishpaper insulation as well as cell to cell glue contact. I only do it for straight stack tho, for staggered I use 2 x 10mm strip of fishpaper across the groups and still maintain cell to cell glue contact.
Given the information freely available on this website alone, as well as the length of time @murdomeek has been a member here, it’s pretty disappointing to see a battery like this in 2023.
While true, it must be noted that he’s been very receptive to feedback here. I’ve lost count of how many people ask for a review of their work and then proceed to make excuses, get butthurt, and/or brush aside concerns and solutions.
I wouldn’t have those balance lead tabs right next to eachother like that between the 2 halves,
especially tabs for the first p group and last p group. that is playin with fire
