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 ...

Hand soldering of surface mount components is a bread-and-butter task for anyone working with electronics in 2024. So many devices are simply no longer available in the older through-hole formats, and ...

1,2 circuit diagram drawing (lesson_1) 3,4 PCB tracing (lesson_1) 5,6 heatgun soldering & testing (lesson_1) 7,8 circuit diagram drawing & PCB tracing (lesson_2) 9, 10 reflow plate soldering & testing ...

printedcircuitsboards.com published a tutorial to explain how to solder SMD chips onto PCBs. It is very well explained and has 2 videos where you can see exactly how the smd soldering process occured.

This started because I tried to build an open source hardware device called the CANtact. I wanted to make my own CAN sniffer so that I could look into decoding CAN messages. The CANtact hooks into ...

For most of us, soldering electronics means soldering on “through hole components,” that are large and easy to handle. However, when machines build components, they use “surface mount components,” ...