| Soldering polarised components always requires some extra attention. Sometimes, mostly with small SMT components, it’s not quite obvious whi...
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| Lab worker Luc Lemmens is a ‘convert’. He has been persuaded to buy a hot-air rework station for use at home and bought the 852 from Aoyue (...
| In order to use an SMD device on a standard prototyping or perf board (breadboard) you will first need to fit it into some sort of carrier o...
| SMDs are nice and compact, but their small dimensions also have some drawbacks. You can hardly tell different types of passive components ap...
| The key advantage of this project is that the TUT (transistor under test) is pressed hard onto three PCB tracks that lead directly to socket...
| Gadgets can be very useful to assist the task of placing components in printed circuit boards. Some people clamp the PCB in a small vice, ei...
| The first step is always the hardest, so we’re providing a brief introduction to SMT to help you out. Here we introduce you to some of the j...
| The introduction of the SMD package is closely linked with the development of the first integrated circuits at the beginning of the 1960s. I...
| As we already wrote in the December 2007 article, with a special control circuit you can transform an ordinary kitchen oven into a handy SMD...
| the January 2006 issue we described in some detail how you could build your own reflow oven using an inexpensive electric oven. That article...