When soldering SMDs (surface mount devices) onto a circuit board, it is often difficult to keep the tiny component correctly positioned. With two hands in use, one holding the soldering iron and the ...

HHTronik Q.O.K. / I learn soldering SMD Want to learn soldering SMT components? Then this is for you! I learn soldering SMD is a super simple kit designed to give you a (relatively) pain-free crash ...

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 ...

This started because I tried to build an open source hardware device called the CANtact. I wanted to make my own CAN sniffer so that I could look into decoding CAN messages. The CANtact hooks into ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present the application of the novel fluxfree soldering process for assembly of standard SMD components on a PCB. A standard SAC305 (Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu) type 3 powder is mixed ...

Need to do some SMD soldering? No tools? No problem! Here’s a creative method that could be a handy tool to add to your belt: SMD soldering using hot sand. [Oliver Krohn] recently released this little ...

printedcircuitsboards.com published a tutorial to explain how to solder SMD chips onto PCBs. It is very well explained and has 2 videos where you can see exactly how the smd soldering process occured.