It's not that hard. Your mate Dave has an excellent video tutorial for it:
EEVblog #186 – Soldering Tutorial Part 3 – Surface Mount | EEVblog - The Electronics Engineering Video Blog
And yes, I did pay as well. I can't wait to see the BOM.
Hi PJN
Yes it's on the way, waiting for some informations before publishing.
I'll use a similar "Form" as the one used by Subbu for registering & Paypal.
You'll receive then a fully soldered, functional & tested DAC/PSU.
I hope it will be soon, same thing for the Parts GB 😉
Regards
Phil
Ive paid as well.
anyone know of a cheapish pcb kit with smd components that i can purchase and do some practice on? ideally something that does anything of use, but i can go for something scrappy too. thanks!
anyone know of a cheapish pcb kit with smd components that i can purchase and do some practice on? ideally something that does anything of use, but i can go for something scrappy too. thanks!
Hi parb
You could try desoldering/soldering exercices using broken/faulty computer motherboards or others electronic devices SMD populated 😉
Keep your money to buy SMD solder paste, magnifying glass and solder braid 😎
Regards
Phil
I started on "trash" from old consumer electronics. De-soldered and re soldered. Good cheap practice. Used a hot air gun to remove the chips.
I have a pretty good soldering iron that my brother gave me (his company was upgrading their equipment), and i was in the market for a heatgun... so i found this one and at the price i figured, what the heck. maybe a bit of an impulse buy but if just the suction for the fumes work i'm happy... 4 IN 1 "X-TRONIC" MODEL #9020-XTS HOT AIR REWORK & SOLDERING IRON STATION, FUME EXTRACTOR & VACUUM PICKUP TOOL - 5 Hot Air Nozzles - 10 Asst. Solder Tips - 1 Extra Hot Air & Soldering Iron Heating Element - Pinpoint Tweezers - 1 5X MAGNIFYING LAMP!!!
I originally had my name down for one of each board plus the chip but I am not on the list anymore. So I went through the order process on the first post a couple of days ago, will I expect an email to then pay or have I done the wrong thing?
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
I bought something similar to this and it blew like a hair dryer... I couldnt do any smd soldering with it without the parts bowing all over the place. It went back the same day I got it. I eventually got a hot air solder pencil, I've used a good soldering iron with a very fine tip.. but I like toys.
Yep, that's what I've been doing.
Used a cheap hot air gun (the paint stripping type) to remove components from a couple of dead boards I salvaged from junk.
Cleaned up the pads with a bit of braid.
Then put the components back on again.
So far, I've done down to 0603 passives and a ~88 pin quad flat pack.
All seem to have been successful, at least nothing melted or lifted, and no shorts under a magnifier.
Of course, the boards are still dead, so who really knows 😀
I can highly recommend the link in post #93
Dave waffles on a bit, but he sure knows his stuff.
Cheers,
Mark
+ a fine soldering tip (1mm) and solder wick for those bugs with a lot of terminals (wm8804, es9023)
Hello,
Will send it in a day or two. No worries. I have been busy last few days and couldn't get back to the emails/pm.
Regards,
Subbu
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