2017-06-17, 00:30
(2017-06-11, 18:23)Mike6158 Wrote: I finally threw in the towel and bought a nice microscope, hot air, and a very fine tipped soldering iron and set up an SMD station.
I wrote a A Beginners Guide to Soldering Surface Mount Components post for the EEVBlog. I'll see if I can reconstruct it here:
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Thank you Mike. This covers my experience with SMDs completely. I just had to solder some 0805s for another project, and I'm getting ready to look for that microscope. Reading glasses and a lighted magnifier weren't enough.