Ben's (BubbaH's) Phase Linear 400 WOPL conversion

That's how Joe does it. No foam pad for me. Insert part, tack solder on top , flip, solder and clip. When it comes to a cap, insert part, turn board sideways, touch iron to lead with other hand hold cap to board, remove iron, finish titling board, finish solder and clip.I tack about a 1/4 of the resistors then flip, solder and clip. Small caps about 4 at a time, big caps 2 at a time. It was 4-1/2 hours from start to finish. With several breaks to scream at the TV, turn TV off, fire up the tune box , etc....probably with no interruptions a good 3 hour project.
 
Populating the whole board then flipping and soldering would drive me nuts. When ya flip the board it looks like a wheat field any way and ya have to get the iron and the solder down together to a very small spot, and with other leads in the way you are constantly changing approach angles, velocities and bending the solder straight to make another approach. I would almost kill for a small iron that automatically dispenses solder at the tip of the iron......I could be plumb dangerous if I had an extra hand at times...
 
laatsch55 said:
Populating the whole board then flipping and soldering would drive me nuts. When ya flip the board it looks like a wheat field any way and ya have to get the iron and the solder down together to a very small spot, and with other leads in the way you are constantly changing approach angles, velocities and bending the solder straight to make another approach. I would almost kill for a small iron that automatically dispenses solder at the tip of the iron......I could be plumb dangerous if I had an extra hand at times...
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Hi Lee
I clip the wheatfield as I go starting at one edge and working across. Faster that way. My record time is a few minutes over 2.5 hours, start to finish.
 
laatsch55 said:
Populating the whole board then flipping and soldering would drive me nuts. When ya flip the board it looks like a wheat field any way and ya have to get the iron and the solder down together to a very small spot, and with other leads in the way you are constantly changing approach angles, velocities and bending the solder straight to make another approach. I would almost kill for a small iron that automatically dispenses solder at the tip of the iron......I could be plumb dangerous if I had an extra hand at times...
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They make spool guns for welding steel and aluminum .... I know it would be tiny but looks like someone could come up with a solder gun like that ! A two stage trigger... pull it half way for heat and the rest of the way feeds solder.... Hmmmmmm....
 
kevin said:
They make spool guns for welding steel and aluminum .... I know it would be tiny but looks like someone could come up with a solder gun like that ! A two stage trigger... pull it half way for heat and the rest of the way feeds solder.... Hmmmmmm....
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You'd think with the brain power on this board someone could come up with a working prototype. Can you imagine the money something like that would make?
 
Gepetto said:
It's a rare moment when the TV is on in the lab. Otherwise I would be yelling at it all the time :-)
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I laughed when I saw the reference to"lab". This came immediately to mind and I bet you probably could make some of that stuff Joe!!!!

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" Where manual assembly operations still exist"...................
 
OK Joe........did you send me some release notes and assembly instructions for the Rev B 400 backplanes??
 
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