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From: "electronut" <electronut@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 8:58 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: BGA Soldering: Hot air rework station


> Thanks to all for the useful suggestions. Unfortunately I'm stuck
> with BGAs for the FPGAs I want.
>
> Mark: I don't need to route all pins, only about 100 so I only need
> to route the outermost rows.
>
> Norm and timbomcnuckle: thanks for the links, I will take a look at
> them.
>
> Leon: I thought about having them done professionally but all the
> quotes I got were like $500 for one board. The thing is I'll
> probably need 2-3 iterations to make my design work ... quite a lot
> of money for a hobby. The equipment is not expensive though (the hot
> air stations are Chinese).
> If you know a place where I can get a resonable price, please let
> me know. It might be just that they solder the BGAs (1-2 per board)
> and I would manually solder the rest.

I've been quoted about £60 ($120) for two boards. I've had a couple of BGAs
assembled by the same company but they were Telit GSM/GPS modules without
real solder balls and they needed to get a mini-stencil made, which was
rather expensive.

Leon
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