dry joint

A dry joint is weak mechanically and a poor conductor electrically.

The term dry joint is also used less precisely to mean any sort of unsatisfactorily soldered joint.

Jordan could hear the creaking of his dry joints, as if the dreams had begun to infect his waking life.

Use screened cables where possible and avoid dry joints by applying the solder to the iron and wire/components simultaneously.

When you have completed the circuit board check it to ensure that there are no dry joints or unwanted blobs of solder bridging tracks.

IC open circuit checker finds lifted legs and dry joints on ICs.

His match-casting innovation was first used with dry joints on the single span Shelton Bridge in upstate New York.

A "dry joint" occurs when the cooling solder is moved, and often occurs because the joint moves when the soldering iron is removed from the joint.

There were also some problems with the ASY63 transistors that had Nickel Iron connecting wires and would not take the solder causing dry joints to the circuit cards.

Dry joint: A dry contact can be confused with a dry joint, which is a type of badly soldered joint in which the solder failed to wet the metal.

Wire wrap construction can produce assemblies which are more reliable than printed circuits - connections are less prone to fail due to vibration or physical stresses on the base board, and the lack of solder precludes corrosion, dry joints, etc.