[sdiy] Noob SMT Soldering Question

[Ingo Debus]

Am 18.03.2013 um 22:06 schrieb Scott Gravenhorst:

> Anyway, that wasn't too physically hard and I want to do a .4mm pitch
> package (TQFP I believe, either 64 or 100 pins).  
> 
> Any advice?

Pizza oven and stencil. By now, we have soldered three PCBs with a 200 pins 0.5 mm pitch IC on them. The hardest part is placing the devices correctly on the PCB. For the big ICs we use a vacuum pick-up tool.

We use this oven and temperature controller:
<http://www.beta-estore.com/rkuk/index.html?PHPSESSID=qnp17kql6ohbsrpgv125vfjnh4>

Ingo