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Experiment with different types and amounts of soldering flux.
The low viscosity (thin flowing) type is preferred.
It has surprisingly huge effects on your soldering work.
In the case of soldering the IC's first try lightly tin the pcb IC pads.
Then clean as usual and flood the IC pads with flux such that the IC pad area literally is a pond (lake) of flux.
Now do the actual soldering in the wet flux.
You will see that the solder tends to automatically flow to where it should be.
You can still use solder paste, but you must control the amount very accurately, as any surplus solder has no where else to go, than the nearest solder pad or pin and will collect there.
Date: 2020-09-05
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Keith
Scott -- at this point you should be using a solder paste stencil to apply the paste. ALSO -- your PCB did not have masking between the pins -- that is not an acceptable quality board. Those guys in China will apply solder between the pins if you demand it. It cost them more time and money -- but you have to ask for it otherwise -- they take that value out of the deliverable.
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Scott -- at this point you should be using a solder paste stencil to apply the paste. ALSO -- your PCB did not have masking between the pins -- that is not an acceptable quality board. Those guys in China will apply solder between the pins if you demand it. It cost them more time and money -- but you have to ask for it otherwise -- they take that value out of the deliverable.
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Gu
Good try, not many YouTubers that post real world problems and click bait. ALSO a word of advice with DIY soldering. Do Main IC's if first without or as little components required for USB uart spi connection and make sure the the main ics are alive, it's easier to troubleshoot
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Good try, not many YouTubers that post real world problems and click bait. ALSO a word of advice with DIY soldering. Do Main IC's if first without or as little components required for USB uart spi connection and make sure the the main ics are alive, it's easier to troubleshoot
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seasdfghjkl
Get yourself a Controleo and combine it with a Pizza oven, add some insulation, maybe a nitrogen injection and you have a really nice reflow-oven. I added some IR heating elements to mine, to get a total power of 1600W. If you use black PCBs it works even better; -)
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Get yourself a Controleo and combine it with a Pizza oven, add some insulation, maybe a nitrogen injection and you have a really nice reflow-oven. I added some IR heating elements to mine, to get a total power of 1600W. If you use black PCBs it works even better; -)
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Murat
Please do the same with an e bike controller. so much thing you can learn us also the e bike community needs this flexibility a lot. there is so much limits and obsolescence cases on that subject. Anyway thanks for your existence man! Keep those coming.
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Please do the same with an e bike controller. so much thing you can learn us also the e bike community needs this flexibility a lot. there is so much limits and obsolescence cases on that subject. Anyway thanks for your existence man! Keep those coming.
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Aidan
Just for the record, field is pronounced f-ee-yul-d: )
I really appreciate the English videos by the way! This is great content and I love that you have made it available to so many people.
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Just for the record, field is pronounced f-ee-yul-d: )
I really appreciate the English videos by the way! This is great content and I love that you have made it available to so many people.
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allyourcode
Yeah. If GreatScott! can't succeed, I'm not even gonna think about trying. lol. Thank you for posting this! Probably save a few ppl many hours of frustration XD
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Yeah. If GreatScott! can't succeed, I'm not even gonna think about trying. lol. Thank you for posting this! Probably save a few ppl many hours of frustration XD
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Dennis
I recall soldering Surface Mount parts. little solder on the iron, flux on the pads, hold down the part with bamboo skewer, then reflow - looked factory.
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I recall soldering Surface Mount parts. little solder on the iron, flux on the pads, hold down the part with bamboo skewer, then reflow - looked factory.
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Amit
Hey Sccott, you should have asked for stencil along with PCBs. It would have been easier to apply the right amount of solder when using heat gun.
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Hey Sccott, you should have asked for stencil along with PCBs. It would have been easier to apply the right amount of solder when using heat gun.
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Andrej
yeah troubleshooting scaren me all time. And sometimes on 3 board my microcontroler burn out and on next one work just fi e. Never underdtand.
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yeah troubleshooting scaren me all time. And sometimes on 3 board my microcontroler burn out and on next one work just fi e. Never underdtand.
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