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| mwb1100:
--- Quote from: BillyO on December 01, 2022, 02:40:07 pm ---It looks like they are in stock today. My order is in.. --- End quote --- Thanks! My order is in too. I honestly have no business monkeying around with this stuff (I'm really a software guy). But for whatever reason I find it fascinating, so paying a bit less than $100 is easily justified as on-going education. I still look forward to any info you post about your device (from the looks of it, I think I might actually be able to successfully assemble it in spite of my lack of soldering skill). |
| BillyO:
--- Quote from: mwb1100 on December 01, 2022, 06:28:58 pm ---I still look forward to any info you post about your device (from the looks of it, I think I might actually be able to successfully assemble it in spite of my lack of soldering skill). --- End quote --- The next one is going to have SMD resistors. They will be pretty big ones .. 1206. Those are fairly easy to solder. Almost as easy as thru-hole. |
| mwb1100:
--- Quote from: BillyO on December 01, 2022, 06:35:48 pm ---The next one is going to have SMD resistors. They will be pretty big ones .. 1206. Those are fairly easy to solder. Almost as easy as thru-hole. --- End quote --- The bigger the better! I'm currently working a "project" that consists of adding eight 0 Ohm resistors to a board to enable some signals to get to a connector. The pads are for 0402 SMD resistors and my workmanship is pathetic. I can manage to get one on and working in a single sit-down, but I find it so frustratingly difficult and ends up so cosmetically awful (probably awful more than just cosmetically, too) that I can't bring myself to try the next one for another week or so. I can't believe all the posts I see where people say they can do 0402 work without magnification - those things are not much larger than a grain of sand! Anyway - my sad story is really more suitable for the Beginner's forum. I should stop drifting this thread off-topic anymore. |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: mwb1100 on December 01, 2022, 07:06:27 pm --- --- Quote from: BillyO on December 01, 2022, 06:35:48 pm ---The next one is going to have SMD resistors. They will be pretty big ones .. 1206. Those are fairly easy to solder. Almost as easy as thru-hole. --- End quote --- The bigger the better! I'm currently working a "project" that consists of adding eight 0 Ohm resistors to a board to enable some signals to get to a connector. The pads are for 0402 SMD resistors and my workmanship is pathetic. I can manage to get one on and working in a single sit-down, but I find it so frustratingly difficult and ends up so cosmetically awful (probably awful more than just cosmetically, too) that I can't bring myself to try the next one for another week or so. I can't believe all the posts I see where people say they can do 0402 work without magnification - those things are not much larger than a grain of sand! --- End quote --- With good eyesight and mine's long gone 1mm x 0.5mm (0402) component soldering is quite achievable. Iron tips not need be small but you need a corner or point of the tip to get to the pad and heaps of flux and a reasonably fine leaded solder to make a tidy job. Technique is everything with SMD. |
| pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: BillyO on December 01, 2022, 06:35:48 pm --- --- Quote from: mwb1100 on December 01, 2022, 06:28:58 pm ---I still look forward to any info you post about your device (from the looks of it, I think I might actually be able to successfully assemble it in spite of my lack of soldering skill). --- End quote --- The next one is going to have SMD resistors. They will be pretty big ones .. 1206. Those are fairly easy to solder. Almost as easy as thru-hole. --- End quote --- Easier then thru hole, because there is no clipping of the leads. 0805 is also still doable for older eyes, but it is easier with a microscope. |
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