SMD soldering – At first, I tinned all the circuit board pads for the SMD chips before trying to mount them. That was a mistake. With both pads for chip tinned, heating up one end of the chip caused ...

A homebrew solder reflow oven controller designed around an STM32L053 series MCU with PCB layouting done in Kicad. A solder reflow oven is a device used to automatically solder SMD components. When ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present the application of the novel fluxfree soldering process for assembly of standard SMD components on a PCB. A standard SAC305 (Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu) type 3 powder is mixed ...

In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA package. But designing a board is one thing – soldering ...

Looking for a 2-in-1 SMD hot air rework station for your workspace? The ZD-8922 is a sub-€100 tool that provides a soldering iron and hot air. The ZD-8922 2-in-1 SMD Hot Air Rework Station is a tool ...

While for some of us it’s a distant memory, every serious electronics hobbyist must at some point make the leap from working with through-hole components to Surface Mount Devices (SMD). At first ...