[sdiy] SMT tutorials - pros and cons of SMT in DIY

[Trevor Cunningham]

I've found myself avoiding the inevitable when shopping for kits. But I
recently came across a term I hadn't heard before: "Reflow Oven". I looked
it up and found a wonderful tutorial that has simply opened up this part of
the world to me. Here's a link to something similar:
http://makezine.com/2015/04/15/diy-open-source-reflow-oven/

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:36 PM, AlanP <alan.p at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> On 25/05/2017 9:42 p.m., sleepy_dog at gmx.de wrote:
>
>> btw, for those shying away from SMT so far,
>> I liked eevblog's tutorials when I started with that: (like vid #3 and
>> later in that list)
>>
>
> My first SMD board was a simple, 3 transistor fuzz pedal. Laid out and
> kitted by someone else.
>
> I honestly found the hardest part to be identifying which of the 3
> transistors were the NPN and PNP ones -- the guy had just taped all of them
> to a piece of paper. Wound up calling my brother to eyeball them, and then
> buying a magnifying glass the next day.
>
> They weren't hard to *solder*, mind you, just to identify.
>
> Steve
>>
>
> --
> Alan Podjursky
> "When in doubt, use brute force." -- Ken Thompson
>
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