I don't "HAVE" to. we have a reflow oven at the space but I need the practice on SMD stuff as I haven't done a lot before. I don't mind practicing on my own stuff... lol.moosepr wrote:Wowsers that's a lot of soldering! Are you having to do them all by hand?abrugsch wrote:About halfway through the soldering
It probably looks a bit abortionist right now as I haven't cleaned up the flux residue yet and the red LED's (D25-D27) I got hacked off with having to re-do them, so didn't clean the pads off to get them nice and flat. even so it took waaaaay longer than I'd have expected, mainly because of the amount of time sorting out the previous attempt on the IC's
still, 19 resistors, 2 capacitors, and the connectors are all that's left (and maybe a pin mod to bring it in line with my V0.2 revision.) then test the connections with the meter making sure there's no Vcc going anywhere it shouldn't, or GND bridging where it shouldn't be on the IC's, then connect it to a Pi and run some test patterns to see if I've killed the IC's
I should manage all that next tuesday night