Use a plcc adapter. Or use the dead bug design, glue it upside down to a piece of plastic then solder the wires to the chip.
> Message: 11 > Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:55:17 -0500 > From: Bill Gatliff <[email protected]> > Subject: gEDA-user: OT: soldering QFN packages with exposed bottom > pad? > To: gEDA user mailing list <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Guys: > > Got any recommendations for how to hand-solder a QFN package that has an > exposed bottom pad? At the moment, all I have is a soldering iron. > > Do you think I could just put a plated-through via underneath the pad, > and then flow solder through that from the back side? > > > b.g. > > -- Bill Gatliff [email protected] -- William Estrada [email protected] Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( http://64.124.13.3 ) Ymessenger: MrUmunhum _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

