[sdiy] Need help with a SMD kit (OT?)

[mark verbos]

I’m with Roman. Sure, I have hot tweezers, hot air, a pick and place machine….

But I switched entirely to SMD about 10 years ago. Initially used 1206 passives. I will NEVER go back. It takes way more time to assemble through hole, with all the flipping the board over and parts falling out/sticking up too high. The PCBs are way more cramped and annoying to layout in TH. I build all of my prototypes with mostly 0603 passives by hand using nothing more than a fine tipped iron. Also, I use lead free, organic water clean flux. I wash the PCB with hot distilled water and the results look like a professional machine built PCB. I don’t mess with breadboards, I just go from a drawing to a PCB. When something needs to be reworked, I use wire-wrap wire and hang parts off the board. Then make the changes to the PCB file for the future. 

Do a few projects with it, and you’ll never go back. I promise. 


Mark


> On Jul 19, 2017, at 1:58 AM, David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:
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> SMD was developed for robots.  I don't feel a need to hone a skill to compete with a robot, thanks.
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>> On 18 Jul 2017, at 22:23, David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca>> wrote:
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>>> This post sums up why I simply will not do SMD by hand.  Not... worth... the... frustration.
>>> 

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