Erik Christiansen wrote > It's those pesky little chicken-food passive components ...
Here's an even quicker way to deal with SMT components (quicker than the pre-tin one end, flux, etc. method). Buy a syringe of solder paste from Stencils Unlimited: http://www.stencilsunlimited.com/solder_products.php Squirt a little on one pad of each component. Place the components (the paste is tacky enough to keep them still). Go back to each component and hold it down with tweezers while you melt the solder paste. Then, solder the other ends or the remaining pads. By the way, I have successfully used the method of wiping along all the leads at once on a 64 pin device with 0.5 mm pitch leads. I too have a magnifying lamp. Of course, you can go the whole hog and use a toaster oven. I have a modified toaster oven that I use for small batch assembly with a proper laser-cut stencil. But, I still use the syringe method to try out new circuits. I now much prefer SMT to through-hole and only go back for the benefit of my customers. Graham. _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
