How to Solder Surface Mount parts (it's easy!)
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Learn how to do surface mount soldering by watching Leo make an amazing Elektrosluch 3 device!
[Skip to 14:17 if you just want to hear the Elektrosluch in action]
Explained in an easy step-by-step guide with lots of detailed closeup shots and great tips for beginners and advanced viewers alike. Hope you like it!
This product is TOTALLY AWESOME. It's made by LOM Instruments:
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never thought I'd be watching a soldering video with such high production. I'm a surgeon, and I am impressed with the meticulous attention to detail here. Excellent job!
I love the presentation and the soft background music. It's like I'm watching surface-mount soldering with Bob Ross. :-D
Lots of happy caps, Hell let's be brave an stick a 20 watt resistor over the top for no reason .....
@Anson Lyric bad bot
At first i thought it was the GTA San Andreas theme really quiet in the background 😂
Geez, someone who actually knows how to teach. Thank you sir.
As a tech from the late 80's to now, this video is a good value for the novice and production quality is on par ( I am a videographer as well ). Well done.
Thanks for the video. I just got my first surface-mount assembly job. I was trained 30+ years ago to do through-hole soldering. BOY! The component size difference is insane. My eyeballs are already freaking out.
The fact that the Elektrosluch is stereo really makes it. So cool.
Totally! I did not expect the noises to be so directional but you can really hear it on headphones when you sweep the device around the room.
I've been avoiding it, but this video has given me courage to try my first IC surface mount. Very nice and clear instructions!
Always been intimidated by SMD, I thought you needed ovens and paste and masks and stuff. Thanks, my life is changed!
That is a cool little product.
Thanks for the info on hand soldering surface mount I'll have to go pick up a few smaller things for the fine soldering
10:35 most of us are likely looking at the legs, but he's referring to the plastic top corner of chip is beveled [where the yellow line passes]. Its blurry there, but can see clearly when sets it down. I barely caught it myself. Can see it clear at 11:49
Great video! Very helpful. The nicest thing was hearing solder pronounced correctly!
Your work is really well done and you have a really steady hand, your planned approach is very smart and i am definitely getting one of those books. I have being soldering in the larger form for my whole career and part of my training included a little trick you might find useful. When you handle the solder it has a similar problem as finger grease on the PCB.
I get a piece of cloth, linen is perfect, wet it with isopropyl alcohol and run the solder gently through the folded cloth. You keep doing that till the black disappears. It make a difference, especially in surface mounted soldering. Perfect is for robots. Thanks for listening
Great tip-I’ll give that a go next time I have to solder something.
Thanks for watching!
Yep, soldering only a single SMD component value at a given time is a REALLY good tip! Thanks for the video, I think it helped me a lot!
Glad it helped!
Actually gives me some confidence I might be able to fix the rather fragile output jack on my NTS-1! Thanks for making this video! 😃
Watched this video for 3 min, then I'm well on the way to set for epic repair journey on my Minolta X-700 with Zero prior soldering skills :-D This video is great
Good luck with your repair-hope it goes great!
extremely good tutorial, thank you
Thanks for a nice guide. The thing you made might be great for foley (movie sound effects)
A good tip after a long time of soldering:
For small SMD components, I find it best to use solder paste with a stencil (you can get a stencil very cheap and quickly produced at many locations). Then place the components in place, and use either a hot air gun (more difficult) or a heating plate (easiest option)
My soldering life and PCB assembly really changed after getting a heating plate. cut down the assembly time considerably.
Hey wait, I am Norwegian and i don't like to watch knitting, I really enjoyed this. Great tutorial.
Great video! Clear speaking really helps us with bad hearing, Thank You!
Very nice demonstration. I do production, mostly through hole but always a few sm op-amps. For those opamps I'll put a little noclean flux on the pads, a drop of solder on the iron tip, use tweezers to place the part then just touch the solder to the pad/leg interface and it just sucks it up. Don't use rosin flux as you can't get it clean under the chip. thanks.
I knew I could trust you by the googly eyes
They make everything sound and work better!
Yeah
Hi
@@LeoMakes
I just subscribed.
Can I pay you to do a
small job on my PCB ?
I have a bios chip that needs to be removed and transferred to the other board.
The PCB is from a hard drive. Please let me know I'm willing to pay somebody if you want to know more info I can explain further thanks.
Keith Kuhn
thanks much for this. Going to have to wait for .3mm solder to be delivered, but at least I'm no longer freaked out by surface mount soldering...
Really great video with a ton of extra information baked in. I would've never thought about the beveled chip with the double lines; and wasn't expecting to learn that in this video. Good stuff!
Leo I found your channel from this video was looking for videos to help me with soldering, I wasn’t really paying attention to what you were actually making until you were done when you turned it on I almost screamed, I am a sound designer and music producer doing all sorts of genres from pop to ambient but what ties it all together in my style is a very high influence from idm glitch experimental music, that thing sounds amazing!, oh and btw the project I am doing right now is a portable modded out turntable for playing ,using djimg and scratching, so seems like your right up my alley… cheers!
Portable modded turntable sounds very cool! I hope you'll post it somewhere (like RUclips) and let me know so I can see it!
you make it look so simple, ill give it a shot one day
Hey there just wanted to say, fantastic channel. Keep up the good work.
Dude you have rock steady hands. You should be a surgeon.
I just soldered smd voltage regulators for the first time as a test and decided I like them. Next pcb I'll add resistors and caps. I will make sure to clean the board first with alcohol. Great video, thanks for posting.
Put clear masking tape over the labels in that sample book when they are new. I have two and with both, the stickers deteriorated and tried to fall off within a matter of months. I live in Thailand which is very humid but expect this would happen anywhere. Great video
Thanks. I managed to solder my very tiny component after straggling so much.
For being organized , thumbs up 👍🏻
educational and devilishly satisfying
I would use some flux, and a little less solder. Excellent Video BTW!
I'm gonna start using alcohol to clean the pads.
Funny, came here for advice on smd quad flat pack soldering. I own the Original Electroslüch from LOM. Great guy, great device!!! I use it for locating RF Interference but also so much more both creative and useful.
Funny, I built it for sound design purposes but ended up using it for RF troubleshooting since a lab spectrum analyser was hopefully out of reach for me. It totally did the job!
Anyway, thanks for watching!
Great video. I once made a very low frequency radio that had an antenna a bit over a meter in diameter of 300 turns of wire. I was able to listen to my TV, the outdoor utility pole and a lightning storm coming in,
Frank Reiser M.S.
Fascinating! It never occurred to me that you can use this device (when properly tuned) to listen to a lightning storm. I associate this device with sounds from man made electronics but it’s interesting that nature can generate interesting sounds for it as well. Thanks for sharing this.
@@LeoMakes I am fascinated by the electromagnetic spectrum and radiation. I liked my VLF receiver because it was so far down the electromagnetic spectrum. Incidently, I have a Geiger counter and radioactive rocks. I have collected the Americium 241 from smoke detectors. They release an alpha particle and then a gamma ray.
All those sounds!!❤
This was helpful, and your calming voice has soothed my worries about frying my first SMT board! Thanks.
Thank you very much for posting this video, you've exposed the mystery of SMD components for me! 🙏
Excellent job
This is a nice and clean and good job, well done !
Thanks for the tips, wish me luck! Attempting to remove, reprogram and resolder a soic8 chip on a $3000 ecu because Lexus had a brain fart when designing their immobilizer systems!
Yikes! Hope you’re successful at your repair. Good luck!
@@LeoMakes I did it last night! All is well, reprogrammed fine and managed to get the car to accept new keys! 16 months it's been sitting and I can drive it again!
Nice one! Congrats!
Great gadget! That is the first time I saw soldering of SMD's that made it look very doable. Thanks for the demo.
Thanks bro, I’m 400th comment. Congratulations 🍾🎊🎉🎈
Thanks, Leo, this is a great and cool tutorial and practice about the SMT Soldering and applications devices to detecting the Noise of the electronics active component, but away the background music is cool
Hey Man, thanks for this video. I now feel confident enough to order parts for a mutable instruments ripples:) Great work!
Thanks for the great tutorial on SMT. After many years working on Heathkits (sure you're too young for that) looking to solder my first SMT kit and it seemed a bit daunting. You made it seem possible. Thanks!
I have definitely heard of Heathkits but I never had the pleasure of working on one myself. Best of luck with your SMT kit!
WOW!
VERY impressive, clear and well done tutorial!
Probably the best tutorial video that that I’ve ever watched.
So nicely done!
Thank You!!!
On a range from a dull cold joint, to the very best high shine, highly wetted solder joint, these look like they’re somewhere around the middle.
Some rosin core solder sizes/brands have too little rosin, thus just a touch more can help. You are concerned about a sticky mess left behind, valid, but this is very easy to avoid. A chisel tip might transfer heat better. It doesn’t matter that all parts are new. All parts need deoxidizing/cleaning, but more to the point **adequate**... deoxidizing; and as several other commenters also observed, these joints would benefit from a bit more. It’s true, since the joints are conductive, it can be argued it’s good enough. But It’s not hard to get that shine, and make it ..even better. Go for it! (Much more satisfying.) 😉
Sir great information thanks.
Love the googly eyes on the hose!
One of the most important reasons to add flux is it affects the surface tension of the solder. The joint forms a nice rounded shape around the things it's supposed to, and ends up cleaner and nicer. Less bridging, because of the surface tension. Less rough and crumbly surfaces, because of the surface tension. Don't fight the feeling... try to get comfortable with adding flux. Yes, there's enough in the solder to make a joint, but... make a *nice* joint, eh?
I just wish you touch-up those resistors with flux...
Yes flux then solder
i’m new to this and really getting into soldering in general, so this might be a stupid question but - if his solder was rosin core solder, would he still need extra flux?
@@san_dingus well, extra flux won't hurt, don't they?
@@san_dingus flux burns off as you solder. Generally by the time you've got the pad set, the flux is gone.
@@san_dingus Late reply, but the general thought is that as long as you are heating the pad with the iron and adding the solder to the pad, then you should be okay. If you put the solder on the tip of the iron and use the iron to transfer the solder to the pad then the flux may cook off before it can do its job.
So, you could argue that the method used here is okay, however the far more common approach is to use flux with reckless abandon. Cleaning the board with alcohol is a good thing, but lay of flux before tinning the pads, then flux the tinned pads again before attaching the component. You need to clean the board again whether you use extra flux or not, so use the extra flux. It's cheap insurance. A flux pen is nice, but a syringe of paste flux is fine. I use a little bottle with a needle tip to apply liquid flux.
Yeah, we used to do it this way back in my day (20 years ago). I don't like your choice of a soldering iron tip though, the ones like a cone section hold the solder drop / puddle better. I mean, not a pointy tip, but an elliptical one.
By the way, pin 1 for IC has usually square edges while the rest of the pins' pads are rounded (to mark pin one), haven't seen that bevel thing ever. Also make sure you solder two diagonal pins before you start soldering the rest. Never solder one by one, add some rosin (perhaps dissolved in alcohol or just rub a crystal between the IC's pins, to powder it in there, then use a tip with a conic section and just drag it over... all done in one swipe. For the smaller raster you have to check the result with a lens or microscope even, but it usually just flows perfectly. After you are done, brush your board with alcohol and a brush (with short bristles, perhaps a tooth brush??! or a shortened painting brush of the proper size), never leave any rosin sitting there.
First time viewer… insta-subscribe. Thanks for sharing! You have given me the confidence to attempt surface mounting, something I had been avoiding.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Thanks, building a through hole speeduino no2c and added the DB2 daughter board for barometric pressure and flex fuel detection, it is through hole EXCEPT for like 7 components, lifesaver :)
Glad it was helpful!
@@LeoMakes lol we will see, i have to test it yet, and the components look great until you use a phone and zoom in, crooked, but possible connected correctly, i have every hope though that they are in fact nominal and working :)
This was a great demo!
Wonderful video, Leo. Thanks. I'm wondering about flux--thoughts? The tip about beveled pads to indicate pin 1 was terrific! This video will make all of us software guys finally holding a soldering iron much less dangerous 🙂
I get this question about flux a lot. I should probably make a video but the short version is that extra flux is not necessary when soldering a fresh PCB with a new part. That’s because virtually all electronics solders have a bit of flux in them. That tiny amount is enough to make a good connection. More flux doesn’t hurt but it’s not really necessary.
If you were doing re-work on a board, that’s a whole other story. Then I’d put down a good bit of flux while removing the part or cleaning up a pad so that I can put down a fresh part.
Hope this clarifies.
Dear Leo , Thank you for nice presentation ...
It’s like things are alive, I love it!
That looks very much like the Hakko T39-B02 Conical Tip that I use for SMD and some THT soldering.
Many members on the EEVBlog forum have some mental issue with conical tips.
Eh. People get wound up on forums and have strong opinions. I’ve worked with all kinds of tips and-over time-you get used to them. Maybe something is better than something else but certainly not anything to have mental issues!
Thank you for the excellent video. Great production quality. Great getting started content. I guess not many people are into SMT or this would have way more likes and comments.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm hoping the video has been helpful to whoever has seen it. Plus it was fun to make.
Came for the Rocket Surgery...stayed for the soldering lesson...the rocket surgery can wait...
What a champ did even need flux
Beautiful video. Thanks, I got a lot from this.
You need good sight to do this, so tiny, but these little things are really neat.
Amazing work! I tried doing this precision soldering to jump a wire on my mouse PCB. I didn't have any thin solder wire though - went ahead and ordered some 0.3mm. Will try again.
Thank you for this video - very helpful!
Thanks for watching and best of luck with your repair!
@@LeoMakes Thank you! Quick update, I sucessfully repaired two mouse PCBs. I went ahead and tried to use 0.02 mm jumping wire but had to use something thicker since it was way to thin for me to comfortably work with
Perfect soldiering techniques 🌹👍
I came to this video from the guitar and audio world, where repair guys still stubbornly refuse to learn how to work on surface mount components. Good to know that a method does exist, they're just being lazy...
Yeah, it's a slightly different game with slightly different tools and techniques but surface mount is not that different from through-hole for most kinds of work. That said the parts are much smaller.
thanks, that is useful
what temp should the solder iron be when doing this work with non-lead based solder?
That burnt finger though ! lol we all been there
Ha! I'm still facepalming over that. I did the one thing I tell people to never do... 5 minutes before filming a video... about how to solder properly.
I do a similar process, but I add solder to one pad on all SMT parts before I begin to place anything. I find it speeds up the process a bit. Always add the solder to the pad opposite the hand you hold the tweezer so the tweezer does not get in the way when placing the part and reflowing the solder.
This is awesome. Just jumping into audio and soldering and the two together as well. Love this.
Boy, wish I saw this before I tried to do it.. lol
thanks,nice and clean and HQ.thanks a lot.
I'm just wondering why you chose not to add any flux to your soldering process. I get that there may be 'some' flux inside the solder you're using, but that often is used up very quickly, especially with the thin amount you have there. I usually add a good amount of flux, and soldering is quick and easy, and flows smoothly. Yes, it's messier to clean up afterwards, but it flows, looks and works a lot better.
When reworking a board, I’ll flood the area with flux to make sure the removal/reinstallation go smoothly. However, on a clean new PCB with a new part going on, the flux in the core inside the solder works perfectly and there’s less cleanup.
Flux certainly doesn’t hurt but it’s not necessary in this case and I prefer not having the extra step of cleaning all the flux residue after I’m done.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome! Very easy to understand! Thanks, alotsssss
Paranormal instigators would love something similar. Maybe try to hook up with them.
Great video! Thought it would be more complex, will definitely give it a try. Thanks!
The art is not in the soldering, the true art of smd soldering is in finding the part should you accidentally drop it
Flux? Nice video. Thank you!
High quality static... Neat! But what if you start picking up ghost voices? Like hearing the voice of the first property owner from the 1800s? I feel static is for audio what mirrors are for vision, interesting, cool but a layer of creepy that wont go away.
Great tips. How are the pc ‘s marked for tiny led’s
Nice Video! This is exactly what I have been searching for. What type of Solder Guns do you recommend for someone getting started for this kind of work?
I wish I could watch this before I melt my board ! : ((
Absolutely love your content. Keep it up!
I noticed you didn't use flux in the component legs, do you not have to use flux on these on component boards?
that was such a useful macro view thanks. I was just wondering if there was a specific temperature of the iron I should be using when doing surface mount parts.
Great presentation and very educational, i do realise we tend to overthink itwhen it come to smd components, definitly going to try and get that component parts list as in the video..great job
2 things, where can you buy the book, and where can you buy that iron?
This device might serve to diagnose electric devices, in the same fashion doctors diagnose humans by listening to their heartbeats. Sophisticated signal analysis techniques could be applied to the recorded noise signal from the device!
Hey old friend! The sounds remind me of what we hear through our studio monitors when someone receives a text or call on their iPhone. Is this what we are hearing?
Hey buddy! That's exactly right. Phones and other wireless devices are generating this stuff all the time and the amps, cables, etc in your studio. can pick it up. Shielding helps, but it's not perfect--some of it will always get through.
very cool ,, ) thanx for the help getting started... Joe
I'm trying to get into this and learn how to this stuff. How do you know what sample books to buy? I see C0402, 0402, 0805??
It depends on what kind of projects/repairs you expect to take on. In this video it was all 0603, which is about as small as I can take on by eye (it gets harder every year). 0402 is very difficult unless you have a microscope so I’d say 0603 is a practical limit.
If you’re new to this or have difficulty with eyes/hands, go with 0805. It’s a good way to get some practice!
Great Video! How come no Liquid Flux?
Maybe a question folks here were trying to ask regarding temperature:
If I'm buying solder, how do I select the melting temperature?
Loved you Desk ..👍also , can you please share the details of the smoke extractor pipe I can see in the intial video . ?
The fume extractor is a Metcal BVX-201. It’s great but it’s overkill unless you do soldering everyday. For occasional hobbyists, there are much smaller/cheaper solutions (from Hakko and others) that work just fine.
Thanks for watching.
@@LeoMakes Thanks a lot for your prompt response . I agree , crazily expensive piece of equipment. Making a fume extractor on my own .
Dude can u use Bluetack to hold pcb in place
That's a great tip. If you're soldering a lot of stuff in a row, blue tack can help keep the board from moving around.
Nice video Leo, I would like to ask you and if possible a video request.. I recently bought a used traktor x1 mk2 dj controller, it won't turn on. That's why I bought it, cuz I would love to repair it. How can I diagnose the fault? I mean how to know is a resistor problem, the USB conector, a capacitor or a short.. and most importantly how to read values from these pieces.. Hope you can guide me or at least give me a tip of how to approach.
Greetings from Mexico
Sorry mate, it’s too complex to troubleshoot something like this over RUclips. My recommendation is to try to find a pro audio DIY or Repair forum or Facebook group and post your question there. Usually there are pretty smart/helpful people that have good tips on what to try.
Good luck and thanks for watching!