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In The Air: Episode 3 - Surface Mount Beginnings

michaelwylie
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8 Nov 2014

Previous Posts

 

In The Air: Epidose 1: Introduction

In The Air: Episode 2 - Preparing for Surface Mount Work


Introduction

 

I've been combining some "Working With Surface" mount material for this weeks post. The target audience will be anyone who has soldered previously, but has not done surface mount and anyone who could use a few more tricks to add to their repertoire. We'll be covering surface mount soldering using an iron and using paste. If you're not a fan of watching videos, you won't like this post, as I have used videos to show the soldering process.

 

The Demonstration

 

This video demonstrates:

  • The setup for surface mount work
  • Removing components with hot air
  • Soldering surface mount components onto a board without using hot air
  • Soldering surface mount components onto a board using hot air
  • Using a solder sucker

 

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My lamp magnifier showed up after I created the video above, so I made another short video demonstrating the use of the unit.

 

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Conclusion

That's it for now. I hope it's useful when it comes time to solder your project. Good Luck!

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  • michaelwylie
    michaelwylie over 10 years ago in reply to michaelkellett +1
    I'd love to test a reflow over for Element 14, hint hint wink wink. haha!
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    michaelwylie over 10 years ago in reply to fvan

    I thought so too, I figured they didn't sell them. However, upon closer inspection:

    http://www.newark.com/cif/f31114/reflow-oven-190-x-290mm-230v/dp/23M6328?ost=reflow&categoryId=800000004025

    http://www.newark.com/martin-smt/minioven-04-s/oven-mini-500w-230v-bga-reballer/dp/06X6437

     

    You know why I never saw them? It's kinda funny actually. Usually when I go looking at products I sort by price low to high. I never made it far enough into the listing to see them ...

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    fvan over 10 years ago in reply to michaelwylie

    Subtle image

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    michaelwylie over 10 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    I'd love to test a reflow over for Element 14, hint hint wink wink.

    haha!

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    michaelwylie over 10 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    I agree Mike. This process is not how we should do production run work. I noticed the bubbling as well. Such is the problem with using hot air like this, we can't get the heat ramp that the oven produces.

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    michaelkellett over 10 years ago

    I noticed that when you soldered the IC there was quite a lot of bubbling still going on when you removed the heat. This is because the process had heated the solder paste too fast and there were volatile components of the flux left, probably under the chip. They are often associated with unmelted or unflowed solder paste balls or voids. For prototypes you can often get away with it but it is better, if you can, to make sure the paste has enough time hot but below solder meting point to boil off all the volatile stuff.

     

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