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Subject: Re: [geda-user] handsolder QFN packages
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:42:46 -0400
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On 03/22/2017 01:25 PM, karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
> Is it possible to handsolder QFN packages, something like [1] ?
>
> Hälsningar,
> /Karl Hammar
>
> [1] http://assets.nexperia.com/documents/data-sheet/PUSB3FR4.pdf

   They're not the easiest packages to hand solder, but it can be done. 
I do it all the time via IR reflow, but I did the first few with a very 
fine-tipped hand iron, a flood of liquid flux, and the "dragging" 
technique.  It's doable.

            -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA