SMD soldering – At first, I tinned all the circuit board pads for the SMD chips before trying to mount them. That was a mistake. With both pads for chip tinned, heating up one end of the chip caused ...

When you are troubleshooting, it is sometimes useful to disconnect a part of your circuit to see what happens. If your new PCB isn’t perfect, you might also need to add some extra wires or components ...

I learn soldering SMD is a super simple kit designed to give you a (relatively) pain-free crash course in that topic! While SMD might look a bit scary in the beginning it's easily manageable when you ...

Advanced Rework Technology (A.R.T.), the independent provider of IPC-certified and bespoke training services for the electronics assembly industry, has produced an educational guide to mastering the ...

The Hackaday Superconference is in full swing, and in addition to the greatest hardware hackers, a great gathering of tinkerers, awesome talks, badge hacking, and so much more, we’ve also got ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present the application of the novel fluxfree soldering process for assembly of standard SMD components on a PCB. A standard SAC305 (Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu) type 3 powder is mixed ...