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Offline mikeselectricstuffTopic starter

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#186 SMD soldering
« on: July 14, 2011, 11:25:43 pm »
For further viewing on this subject, here's a video I did about speeding up the process of hand-placing SMD parts, plus a few other random SMD hints & tips
 
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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2011, 11:53:53 pm »
Nice work as usual Mike!

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2011, 01:18:04 am »
Very Nice Mike you have educated and inspired me to do more in house stuff. You showing the pick and place machine on camera and saying it takes longer to setup than make the small quantity of boards you need is invaluable information. 
 

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2011, 01:26:33 am »
For FYI those in the US... I get the stencils done at www.pololu.com and the paste at http://www.zeph.com/zephpaste.htm
 

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2011, 02:52:28 am »
That's some really great tips!

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2011, 04:41:17 am »
Loved the video dave, i see youre pretty good at alighning those chips. I've always found soldering .5mm pitch ics to be easy, just the aligning the chip beforehand is difficult.

One thing I noticed that wasn't discussed was the type of fluxes ie noclean, RMA and cleaning them up. I've use RMA flux in tubes and its typically is annoying to remove. Alcohol works but you sometimes have to use a lot of it so I like to heat up the flux reside with my hot air station. This liquifies the flux at a pretty low temperature and you can just wipe it off.
 

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2011, 02:51:59 pm »
Good vid, thanks for sharing your experience.
 

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2011, 06:13:45 am »
I've use RMA flux in tubes and its typically is annoying to remove. Alcohol works but you sometimes have to use a lot of it so I like to heat up the flux reside with my hot air station. This liquifies the flux at a pretty low temperature and you can just wipe it off.
Ordinary alcohol does not dissolve flux very well, however isopropyl alcohol works much better. Isopropyl alcohol is often found as a cleaning solvent for cameras, electronics and other stuff. It is mild and generally doesn't harm plastics.
 

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2011, 08:37:22 am »
I have never done SMD soldering but now think it's something I ought to try, once I can improve my kit. It looks about as I thought it would - I thought smaller pad sizes would make it more difficult.
 

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2011, 10:35:10 am »
Nice job Mike, thanks!
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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2011, 01:49:26 pm »
Excellent content and presentation.
Thanks!
 

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2011, 03:40:38 am »
Thank you very much for the video, helped me a lot!
 

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Re: #186 SMD soldering
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2011, 05:05:52 pm »
Nice job Mike!   Thats one hell of a lab!!
 


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