23 Jan
2012
23 Jan
'12
5:01 a.m.
On 01/22/2012 09:39 PM, Mouse wrote:
Of course. And thinking back a bit, I was really put off by it when
I first started doing it too. But after some practice, and getting
correct (and good) tools, it became much easier.
Just like through-hole soldering. :)
I came to like SMT work far, far more than through-hole very shortly
after that, though. Now I dread through-hole; it just takes too damn
long and is generally a pain compared to SMT.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
> Many
hobbyists seem to be deathly afraid of soldering SMT,
> particularly fine-pitch (0.5 mm) QFPs.
I've never understood it. I'm now deep
into the through-hole pass on
an assembly job I'm doing, and I'm hating every second of it, while
the SMT parts were a breeze. The world is full of backward people,
it seems. The fear of SMT is a knee-jerk reaction with no foundation
in reality.
Well, I wouldn't classify myself as "deathly afraid of" surface-mount.
But I don't like the little of it I've done, and that is the voice of
experience, albeit only minor experience, not "no foundation in
reality".