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hand-soldering a QFN chip |
solder paste and a toaster oven |
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also, post questions in our soldering forum or return to the surface mount soldering index
Surface Mount Soldering 101
Now available on DVD with our soldering into and metal working videos.
9 min. overview video demonstrating Surface Mount Soldering with inexpensive equipment. Includes soldering of a 603 resistor, PLCC, 44 pin QFP, 208 pin fine-pitch QFP,
desoldering using hot air and ChipQuik®, and prototyping with SchmartBoards®.
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The following pages contain more pictures and details about the techniques shown in the video, as well as some things not in the video, such as hand-soldering a QFN chip and using solder paste with a toaster oven.
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feedback and corrections are appreciated.
Great video!
The best video I’ve seen so far. I prefer to tack the chip, resistor,
capacitor ect. using only the tin on the pad.(Works only on pre-tinned boards) I hope you’ll fill up with more content soon . Good luck!
Great Explanation of this smallest components, i like it.
Fantastic work! More good communicators like yourself are needed in electronics.
Excellent narration, excellent framing, excellent lighting … excellent vid. Thanx!
Best SMT vid I’ve ever seen!
Awesome video :) Great job !
Just my 2ct, but I soon will have to learn soldering SMD (thx for this GREAT tutorial), and rather than buying protoboard (or in addition to buying them), I will scavenger a fem old routers and mother board, and play desoldering / resoldering some parts on them.
tReg.
Thank you!
Very good vid. Only recommendation to soldering/desoldering chips is to not solder consecutive leads. This can lead to overheating and damaging the chip. Whenever possible stagger pins and sides of the chip to allow heat to dissipate rather than continue to build.
Thanks to all.
Re: soldering consecutive pins:
Good point, this is a precaution that wasn’t emphasized in the video. I will say, however, that I’ve been told drag soldering is the most popular technique used in industry, and it definitely requires soldering adjacent pins. Also, chips are oftentimes soldered by dunking the entire package in a vat of molten solder (wave soldering). The vats of solder are lower in temperature than hand irons, though. How careful you need to be certainly depends on the chip and iron temp, but staggering when possible is great advice.
Such use full web content is appreciated and deserves a thank you.
Thank you
excellent work this has to be the best yet nice one!
A very great job : sharp images, clear voice and very instructive.
Thanx for sharing this
Excellent ! Can I download this video?
This sucks, not everyone has flash. :(
This is very interesting. I have done a lot of SMT soldering but this shows me a better way. Unfortunately, it is hard to watch as my download speed is slower than the playback :( A way to save it would be really good so I can watch better. Replay reloads it again, not playing it from a buffer.
quality’s not as good, but you might have better luck watching it on youtube
Excellent !
its called SOLDEr not “SODDER” as the lazy american narrator keeps saying
solder \’sä-dər\ == American pronunciation != British anachronism
ref. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/solder
see also -> aluminum
What temperature is the soldring iron being used in this video, anyone know?
a variety of temperatures were used, from 600-670 degrees F, although most of the video was shot at around 640. With lead-free you’ll probably want an iron somewhere around 700-750 degrees F.
Awesome video and excellent quality. Thank you for taking the time to make it detailed and understandable. Gives me a little more confidence soldering/desoldering chips as a beginner.
I couldn’t keep watching..the poor pronunciation of SOLder annoyed me too much!
Our company is based in the US, so we use the American pronunciation: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solder
Awesome video!!! Thanks
Thanks for the very useful video! Great technique and well explained. No thanks to the provincial pronunciation fascists who can’t handle variation in language.
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