<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 19.01.2023 um 18:07 schrieb Mr&MrsAccount <<a href="mailto:hbissell@wowway.com" class="">hbissell@wowway.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">You might design it so that the serpentine trace will be grounded at multiple points by attaching vias to the top and populating multiple zero-ohm resistors.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">These zero-ohm resistors have to be soldered *after* the PCB was heated of course, that means per hand, with a soldering iron. On a conventional PCB, these resistors aren’t required at all, so the advantage of the built-in heater is somewhat mitigated. Perhaps still better that soldering a LGA IC per hand.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe such a PCB is a good thing for small adaptor boards that don’t contain much more than a tricky-to-solder IC (SSI2130 for instance).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ingo</div></body></html>