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From: "Moore" <prmoore@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:03 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Hand solder 28 pin tssop?


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> I want to switch packages on a design, I've been using a 44pin plc
> which is a reasonable challenge. I'd like to go to a 28pin tssop.
> ANybody hand soldered one of these?

Quite easy if you use the 'drag-soldering' technique - tack down two
opposite corners, apply plenty of flux, put a small amount of solder on the
soldering iron tip and wipe the tip along the pins and remove any shorts
with desolder braid. It can be done with an ordinary soldering iron but a
Metcal like the one I use has a special tip:
http://www.metcal.com/tips/minhoof2.html#fine

Leon



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