PC board question: Dayton BR1 Kit...help please

[jaygeorge1979]

Ok this is not my first time building a speaker kit, but I have a completely noob question.

I am in the process of building crossovers, and I cannot figure out whether or not the leads of each component need to actually be attached to another lead by soldering, or if I should just solder them in place where they go into the board.

http://www.partsexpress.com/pdf/300-640.pdf

This is the link for the owners manual of the kit, where it supposedly explains it. There is a picture on page 12 showing the bottom side of a completed crossover. The leads do NOT seem to be soldered together, instead each lead seems soldered in place on its spot on the PC board and then the excess wire is just cut. That is what I see anyways.

Then, it tells me to solder the "rivets" but I do not see what to solder them to? It seems like the picture shows him just soldering in the holes? I dont see what this accomplishes.

I can read schematics and instead of writing this whole post, I could just wire the thing onto a piece of cardboard. However, I am really very curious how this little board works. Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,
JG

[sreten]

Hi,

Components are not hard wired. Soldered to PCB and glued to board.

soldering the terminals gives a better connection between the
copper of the PCB and the rivets, and prevents corrosion here.

/sreten.

[jaygeorge1979]

That clears up so much. And I guess it makes sense. I just did not see any pattern that proved to me there was some sort of internal connections made between all of the copper spots. But it must be all internal.

Thanks,
JG