THE VIDEO SHELF · smd soldering
EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount
Dave Jones of EEVblog shows hand soldering of surface-mount parts, including drag soldering and tack-and-reflow of 0.5mm fine-pitch ICs, with solder paste and hot air.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a good introduction to SMD soldering techniques for beginners.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- EEVblog
- Topic
- smd soldering
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2020
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From the original HN conversations
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It's actually pretty simple to hand solder a TQFP by drag soldering. The key is to use plenty of flux and have solder braid handy to take care of any bridges. [VIDEO] It's sort of a moot point with this Cortex A8 IC though, because …
nrp on Hacker News · 2012-04
In Hand solderable 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 in TQFP packageMeta : You can open an account at: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] These are forums with extremely helpful members. The format is different than Stack Overflow's "Question/Answer". It is built on the "Post/Thread". You can have threads that go on for 40 pages and span a …
Jugurtha on Hacker News · 2020-08
In Ask HN: Good resources for learning electronic curcuits and PCB designIt's really not difficult to solder SMD components. See e.g. [VIDEO] for a good introduction to the relevant techniques.
foldr on Hacker News · 2020-10
In Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers
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