EDN

Hand-Soldering Surface-Mount Devices

At some stage you will have to work with surface-mount devices (SMDs) and solder them by hand. You can wait until you are forced to learn, or you can leap into the fray with gusto and abandon. At some ...
Hackaday

BGA Hand Soldering Uses Tombstone Resistor Technique, Demands Surgical Precision

Most Hackaday readers will be a pretty dab hand with a soldering iron. We can assemble surface-mount boards, SOICs and TSSOPs are a doddle, 0402s we take in our stride, and we laugh in the face of ...
Electronic Design

Hand-soldering competition to heat up SMT Hybrid Packaging 2017

Bannockburn, IL. IPC’s Hand Soldering Competition at SMT Hybrid Packaging 2017 will see skilled competitors go soldering iron to soldering iron May 16-18 in Nuremberg as they compete for cash prizes ...
Electronic Design

IPC crowns hand-soldering-competition world champion

Bannockburn, IL. In cooperation with productronica 2017, IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries held its Hand Soldering Competition at the trade fair in Munich earlier this month, with a ...
Digi Times

Indium Corporation launches new no-clean flux for reflow, hand soldering

Indium Corporation has released a new halogen-free, no-clean ROL0 flux specifically developed for PCB assembly hand soldering and rework applications. TACFlux 020B-RC passes SIR testing in the ...
EDN

Hand-soldering of surface-mount ICs

In the mid-1980s, the electronics industry began a nearly unanimous move towards using surface-mount technology (SMT), Figure 1. This article assumes you have an existing PCB or other suitable board ...