Almost all my projects are now SMT, mainly because I feel it saves so much time and money (smaller board size) compared to through hole components. It's way faster for me to place the parts than to manually solder each through hole component.
I currently use mostly 0603 parts and I recommend oshstencils for cheap plastic stencils. Whenever I send parts to oshpark I simultaneously do an oshstencil order. I use the hot plate method to do my soldering. It's not entirely recommended because a hot plate gets pretty variable in temps, but if you just sit beside it for a few minutes and take the board off when you start seeing the solder melt it should be fine. I mark the spot on my dial where the temperatures are usually the best for me. However I'm currently working on a project to convert an old toaster oven to do the reflow automatically. I'm trying to get the temperature display to be nixie tube based. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/28aa3179-f1aa-4e39-b5ce-1618e47b9e6b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
