{"id":274,"date":"2014-02-22T22:19:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2014-03-01T22:29:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T06:29:40","slug":"board-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/archives\/274","title":{"rendered":"Board population"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a few days since I got the new boards but I finally got a chance to populate my boards. The solder paste I’m using is supposed to work for 6 months without refrigeration. It’s now been just over a year (ordered Feb. 11th of last year as it turns out), so I’m crossing my fingers and hoping it works:<\/p>\n

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As it turns out, it still works fine! And just because I didn’t document in my previous experiments with the paste, I’ll document it here. The spec for this paste says it melts at 183\u00b0 C. So, I started the heat gun at 150\u00b0 C for a couple of minutes to warm the board. Then every 30 seconds, I increased the temp by 10\u00b0. Once I hit 190, the solder melted quickly. I did have to go over some areas repeatedly to make sure everything got melted at once, but it all worked fine and the board looks like it worked well!<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, now I have to deal with the switches, speaker, mic, and battery before I can test. Looks like it will be a few more days… So far so good though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a few days since I got the new boards but I finally got a chance to populate my boards. The solder paste I’m using is supposed to work for 6 months without refrigeration. It’s now been just over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/schminktronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}