Building a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO)

RE: Building a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO)

genebren — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:56:32 GMT

Very nice design! Great attention to detail (as usual) and well documented. I ditto [mention:acaf6a9338de4eef8f6717d5561ed01d:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] suggested soldering technique as this is my go to approach. Typically I tin one pad of all the active components, mount all active components, then solder all remaining pins. Then I tin one pad on each passive component on a given side of the PCB. I then add all of passives and then solder all of the unsoldered pads (touching up any of the initial pins as necessary). Flip the PCB and repeat (if necessary).

RE: Building a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO)

Jan Cumps — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:26:18 GMT

I use the "solder one pads" approach. But not one by one. i tin a number of pads. Put the components. Then solder the other sides.

Sometimes I paste both pads, dip the component in place and reflow with the iron.

RE: Building a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO)

DAB — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:58:25 GMT

Very good post.

DAB