[coreyjon]

Theese have been some great tips. I did "tin" the wires before I connected them to the pot, I did not however wet the soldering iron, although it did have molten solder on it from a previous solder connection. we are using a pencil, not a gun. Perhaps either for competition, or at least for next year, I will bring in my soldering station I got off of ebay, I think it was used in some type of electronics production, because it is very hefty and well built and has a LED readout of the temperature, along with finite temp control - overall a very nice unit. Makes it nice to fix electronics down in my "lab" - where many evil creations are built or fixed. The problem was our main electrical guy, and thats the official title by the way, was not around, I think he left on a trip...so the programmers where left to do some of this stuff. Not a big deal, we got everything working before it got crated up, and it works good. See you guys at competition.