It’s how we ‘fine tune’ a circuit, or fix a mistake. Just grab a through-hole resistor and solder iron and…
Rivets !There are two reasons to use copper rivets/eyelets on every through-hole lead for two-sided PCBs. First, it makes soldering…
Pre-tin the component leads ! This will save you a great deal of trouble and time. Put a ‘healthy coat’…
When we switch to lead-free solder, we will have two types of soldering to re-learn – hand soldering and re-flow…
Most of my DPCB (desktop printed circuit board) burnishing problems all have one cause: impatience. Some things just should not…
Looking back over the last few months, I realize this should have been my first post on the subject of…
Being a test-bed for a new design concept, component evaluation, or simulation verification, our DPCB assembly is likely to see…
Perhaps the number one reason for DPCB is testing and idea or evaluating components. We do not do DPCB for…
Soldering printed circuit boards is different ! Printed circuit boards are printed with no-lead ink. This requires no-lead solder. Soldering…
As stated in a previous post, a printed circuit board is make by depositing a thick, conductive, liquid onto the…