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davedarkodavedarko 10/04/2016 at 15:079 Comments

[Update] hand soldered board

This one is almost as big as the small 20mm x 20mm, inspired by @al1 's visit at my place, showing of his colourful and tiny RGB displays. I plan on putting this on arduinos and just run and hope for the best with blue or white LEDs.

don't be cheap, use fresh solder paste :D first heatgun station (858D) clone test.

I needed something to calm down my nerves - the annoying colleague was annoying - so I hand soldered the board with the today arrived UV LEDs. I wanted purple leds on a purple board...

Discussions

Alex wrote 10/25/2016 at 20:02 point

Are these 0805 LEDs?

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davedarko wrote 10/25/2016 at 20:07 point

0603s

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davedarko wrote 10/25/2016 at 15:19 point

Boom. Happy. 

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Alex wrote 10/25/2016 at 15:51 point

nice

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ajlitt wrote 10/23/2016 at 19:37 point

yech.  I'll do a test run next time I do reflow...

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Eric Hertz wrote 10/23/2016 at 14:48 point

ah hah! If that's what happens with old solder-paste, then no wonder I've always had so much trouble with it I thought it amazing anyone could use it. Musta got some old-stock... 'cause that's basically exactly what my experience has been... but not nearly to such a scale ;)

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deʃhipu wrote 10/23/2016 at 12:59 point

What am I looking at? What happened there?

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davedarko wrote 10/23/2016 at 14:06 point

Just old solderpaste and flying LEDs...

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Alex wrote 10/04/2016 at 15:39 point

nice!

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