I have Eagle on my Macintosh, but I haven't even started climbing the
learning-curve mountain.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
On 11/16/12 at 6:23 AM, thompsond...@gmail.com (Don KA1KU) wrote:
I use Eagle on Linux but I think
it is available for most operating systems. It is one great product, and
I wanted to take a moment to thank all who gave me great feedback on my SMD
question. Lots of great suggestions, web links and Youtube suggestions. I am
now able to tackle the SMD boogieman and I am hoping that these posts will
also assist others who come to the group with similar questions about
I know the group has given you good suggestions and options for SMD soldering
but there is another route which is much better IMHO, but more expensive, of
course. Being able to solder SMD devices easily, togther with todays CAD
Tools, such as Eagle (free for small two-sided boards), makes
Sorry, Eagle is a Printed circuit design software. See cadsoftusa.com. You
can draw your circuit schematic and then create a PCB board layout. The
software will then produce the necessary files to send to a board house to
create the actual board. Within Eagle there is a very extensive library
I ordered K6XX's CW indicating light for my Elecraft k2 and it has some
(resistors and caps) SMD's I am going to have to work with. I have been
reading on the internet about ways to instal these comments. I have read about
using solder paste as this helps to place them and kinds steady’s them
Mike,
Tom Hammond (SK) wrote the assembly instructions for that kit and
included detailed instructions for soldering SMD parts. I suggest you
try that method before investing in solder paste or any other special
tools. You can fine the instructions at Tom's website
Hi Mike VE3WDM,
I reccomend you to watch this solder tutorial on Youtube, to provide you
tips to a good solder result for SMD tacking methods:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCwK40KUNRg
The advantage of the bump-tack-method is that you will only have to
steady the component for a few seconds
There are a bunch of videos on the web on this subject. I got some
ultra-fine solder at Radio Shack, put a dot on one of the pads, and held
the chip cap or resistor down with a pencil eraserwhile melting the
solder with a fine-tip iron, then applied solder in the conventional way
to the other
Here are the instructions from some other kits:
Install surface-mount inductor L3. Pre-tin the inductor pads on
the PC board sparingly with solder before installing the part.
Place this component on the two pad locations and restrain
carefully in place with tweezers. Tack one end down with the
I use the method (with one change) that is described by Don, W3FPR.
I use 0.025 inch diameter solder. I tin the pad that I want to
solder, first, with a tiny bit of solder. Holding the iron on the
pad so the solder is fluid, I use small tweezers to hold the part on
the surface of the pc
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