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EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount

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What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a good introduction to SMD soldering techniques for beginners.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's actually pretty simple to hand solder a TQFP by drag soldering.”

    Demonstrates drag soldering of fine-pitch surface mount parts

    nrp, 2012-04 · Recommendation · in “Hand solderable 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 in TQFP package”

  2. “Check out Dave Jones' multi-part videos on soldering”

    Multi-part soldering tutorials by Dave Jones

    Jugurtha, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Good resources for learning electronic curcuits and PCB design”

  3. “for a good introduction to the relevant techniques.”

    Good introduction to SMD soldering techniques

    foldr, 2020-10 · Recommendation · in “Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: soldering, surface mount, drag soldering, hot air, electronics

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