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 ...
A highlight of last year’s Hackaday Remoticon was a soldering competition that had teams from around the world came together online and did the well-known MakersBox SMD Challenge kit in which a series ...
High-power SMD ceramic-based chip resistors are susceptible to solder joint failure, cracking, and pulling the solder lands off the PCB. High power SMD ceramic-based chip resistors are susceptible to ...
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 ...