SMD soldering – At first, I tinned all the circuit board pads for the SMD chips before trying to mount them. That was a mistake. With both pads for chip tinned, heating up one end of the chip caused ...

When you are troubleshooting, it is sometimes useful to disconnect a part of your circuit to see what happens. If your new PCB isn’t perfect, you might also need to add some extra wires or components ...

The Hackaday Superconference is in full swing, and in addition to the greatest hardware hackers, a great gathering of tinkerers, awesome talks, badge hacking, and so much more, we’ve also got ...

Advanced Rework Technology (A.R.T.), the independent provider of IPC-certified and bespoke training services for the electronics assembly industry, has produced an educational guide to mastering the ...

Advanced Rework Technology Ltd (A.R.T.), the independent provider of IPC-certified & bespoke training services for the electronics assembly industry, has produced an educational guide to mastering the ...

This technical article discusses the common effective soldering methods used in Allegro products. It also provides an overview of SMD (surface mount devices) and through-hole packages. This article ...

Abstract: This article is devoted to the automation system of a manual soldering station (soldering dryer) for convection heating for surface-mounting technology (installation of surfacemount device ...