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Need some help either I've been abducted by aliens and their stole my ability to solder or I'm loosing the plot.

Basically trying to solder deans connector onto a battery, but can I heck get it to bond. The gold connector and the wire just doesn't want to melt with the solder. I thought might be the iron (30w) not hot enough, but had it on for over 25 minutes and after a few seconds touching the wire felt the heat transfer down it.

The iron need to bigger. I hope you had it on for 25 seconds not minutes.
You have 14 gage wire and a deans. Try fluxing both separately then solder
each and put them together with a drop of solder on iron.
Darryl

The 30w iron will be just fine for that TB..I use that size iron all the time for deans. Use plenty of flux is the key(tin both the wire and deans). If you are using a heavy gauge wire heat that wire up 1st, so the solder is now running.Then move it over to the deans and slide the iron down 1 side of the wire so the iron is tuching the deans. The 2 should now be as one. Don't leave the iron on the deans too long as it will damage it with over heating it. You know when the 2 have made a good joint as when you move the wire up and down on the deans it makes a "squeaking" sound ,and you will know you have made a good connection.

White Knight wrote:The iron need to bigger. I hope you had it on for 25 seconds not minutes.
You have 14 gage wire and a deans. Try fluxing both separately then solder
each and put them together with a drop of solder on iron.
Darryl

Sorry I meant the soldering iron was plugged in for 25 minutes so was nice and hot.

Caddyshack, trying all that. Managed to tin some copper wire and attached to the Deans no problem, so I think the problem is because the battery cable is so large. Plus having difficulty tinning the battery wire for some reason maybe because not copper so guess is aluminum? Is that harder to tin/solder.