God help me. Drivers

[Mohrenberg]

It makes me want to cut myself.....repetitious horror

50 drivers, 21 solder points per driver.....1050 points to solder.

 

[Grix]

Hire a mexican to do it :na:

 

[daguin]

It makes me want to cut myself.....repetitious horror

50 drivers, 21 solder points per driver.....1050 points to solder.

WE love you, Mo.

Peace,
dave

 

[Tech_Junkie]

Cant you use the flow method? I think Ryan used to use a toaster oven.

 

[Mohrenberg]

i'm not familiar with it, my luck i'd end up with black crispy drivers....so i'll just do em all by hand....besides, i already shelled out the 9 bucks for a new roll of solder and soldering tip

 

[Gryphon]

Holy crap! have fun with that

 

[yobresal]

Yikes, Man you have got to be loco. That is going to take you hours on end. I hope you have lots of crack.

 

[moninosis]

Damn you might as well build your own motherboard.

Hire a mexican to do it :na:

I agree, you can pick them up at home depot by the dozens, or atleast here you can, idk the quantity or quality of mexicans you have in Missouri. Last time I was there I went to tom sawyers cave, I never saw a home depot, just a golden corral. lol.

 

[HIMNL9]

It makes me want to cut myself.....repetitious horror

50 drivers, 21 solder points per driver.....1050 points to solder.

Ahh, you're lucky ..... so few points to solder, there ..... it's all rest

 

[lasersbee]

Just do it in a production run... do all 50 boards with one same component...
If you have identical components do them at the same time..
Then go to the next different component and so on..

Before you know it you will be putting the last part on each of the 50
boards...

OR...

You can learn the re-flow method using a modified toaster oven...
There is an article on it somewhere... Can't remember off hand where
I saw it..

BTW.... don't feel too bade.... I have 100 of these to build...

Jerry

 

[Mohrenberg]

heh thats what i'm doing. I just finished getting all of the lm117 volt regulators soldered on...

luckily i am watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on my laptop while i asemble....so i'm staying entertained.

 

[lasersbee]

Yeah... I always have a TV or Radio going in the background...
It makes time fly...

Jerry

 

[ndrew2505]

hey matt if you need help with the toaster method just give me a shout. youll need a toaster with a quartz element and a hypodermic full of solder paste. its a lot simpler than you think and takes way less time.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

Ryan has a video somewhere showing how.

 

[Mohrenberg]

i should prob look into it....

right now i've got the back side finished, and the pot on the front side completed on all the drivers....

 

[Mohrenberg]

I'm not sure how much easier it would be though.....The majority of the time spent is getting the components into place.

the only step baking them would take out is actually grabbing the iron and soldering them, which only takes a couple of seconds...