- Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:42 am
#35130
Hi there,
Has anyone had any luck hand soldering the SCP1000 pressure sensor?
I tried making a special pad in Eagle with extra long traces to solder this part (sort of like a mini-shmartboard designed for the SCP1000 footprint), but after an hour and a half of sodering work I can't seem to make contact with the SCP1000. My thoughts were to pre-tin the SCP1000 pins, and the PCB traces, then, once a single pin was connected, put the board on an angle, and add solder paste and allow it to reflow 'down hill' along the trace, under the SCP1000, and to the pin. I thought I had done alright, even checking the connections with a tiny needle, but it's possible that some of the pins weren't connected, are bridged, or that the SCP1000 simply decided that it became a little too warm for it at some point.
I was wondering if anyone else has had any success with hand soldering this part. I'm wondering if I should order a few more SCP1000's and try again (perhaps with a toaster oven, if that might yield more success?), or to pick up SFE's breakout board and just wire wrap the breakout's pins onto my board.
(Just a quick aside: by hand soldering I'm referring to using a soldering iron, not a reflow station )
thanks,
silic0re
Has anyone had any luck hand soldering the SCP1000 pressure sensor?
I tried making a special pad in Eagle with extra long traces to solder this part (sort of like a mini-shmartboard designed for the SCP1000 footprint), but after an hour and a half of sodering work I can't seem to make contact with the SCP1000. My thoughts were to pre-tin the SCP1000 pins, and the PCB traces, then, once a single pin was connected, put the board on an angle, and add solder paste and allow it to reflow 'down hill' along the trace, under the SCP1000, and to the pin. I thought I had done alright, even checking the connections with a tiny needle, but it's possible that some of the pins weren't connected, are bridged, or that the SCP1000 simply decided that it became a little too warm for it at some point.
I was wondering if anyone else has had any success with hand soldering this part. I'm wondering if I should order a few more SCP1000's and try again (perhaps with a toaster oven, if that might yield more success?), or to pick up SFE's breakout board and just wire wrap the breakout's pins onto my board.
(Just a quick aside: by hand soldering I'm referring to using a soldering iron, not a reflow station )
thanks,
silic0re