Hi Grant,
There certainly were a lot more than a handful that build the NorCal
2030 that had a surface parts count close if not more that the K1.
With the right tools building surface mount can be easier than thu hole.
---Paul AK1P
On 6/6/2019 3:18 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
There probably aren’t more than a handful of folks who could actually build an
SMD kit of any size without having to send it back to Elecraft to be built or
to fix the mess.
Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091 KX3 #8342
On Jun 6, 2019, at 3:13 PM, Gwen Patton <ard...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a decent soldering station, but for SMD beyond a few parts I don't
use a soldering iron. I use an i-Extruder pencil (a stepper-motor powered
syringe dispenser) to apply dots of solder paste to the pads, then tweezers
to pick-and-place the components. If it's a small area, I use my hot air
station to melt the paste and solder the parts. If it's a larger board, I
use a microcontroller-driven heating plate called a ReflowR to precisely
ramp up the heat, melt the paste, and cool it off so as to cause the least
thermal shock to the board or the components.
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