Anyone know of a SMD soldering kit of some sort? I know there's the alternative of designing a fake pcb with a bunch of footprints for a variety of smd components, but I don't want to go through that...
Sparkfun do one:
My friend made this SMD challenge board for practicing SMD soldering ---
http://www.delorie.com/pcb/smd-challenge/
The board has components from 01005 to 0805, SOT-416, SOT323, SOP14 and US8.
IIRC if you are successful a couple of LEDs flash. He doesn't have PCBs left but the CAD files are online so you could order your own.
If you wanted to practice on larger parts SOT23, SOIC and 0805 I sell a prototyping
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Thanks guys. Can't believe I missed that sparkfun one, I've been staring at it for a while now, never realized it was an SMD practice board.
Time to learn to become a pro at SMD soldering! ;D
I find SMD soldering much quicker than TH. No leads to clip. No flipping of the
board to solder.
If you stick to 0603 or larger, 0.5mm pitch or larger and packages with leads you
should not have a problem.
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I forgot to post an SMD soldering video that a friend sent me.
The fellow in this video demonstrates a vertical drag soldering technique.
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There is a great SMD Instruction on youtube that covers all the basics you will need:
I find SMD soldering much quicker than TH. No leads to clip. No flipping of the
board to solder.
so do i, but i kinda go hybrid, surface mounting TH components to a piece of perfboard (well or pcb if i ever made any)
I always get mixed up fipping the board over and thinking of stuff in mirror