Assembly and Testing
Assembly and Testing
Overview
The assembly and testing of self-designed PCBs requires some extra equipment. Much of this has already been thought out on the Rapid Prototyping Elektronik page and in particular on the associated spreadsheet/list. I would like repeat some of the recommended items here. Another good reference for this is the Soldering Workshop presented by Binary Kitchen, Regensburg.
The kit for each attendee
- Lötstation
- Löt
- Schutzbrille
- Lötrauchabsaugung
- Metallschwamm
- Seitenschneider
- Pinzetten
- Drittehand
- Entlötpumpe und Entlötlitze
- ESD matte
- Lampe.
Advanced Gear
- Heißluftlötstation
- Reflow-ofen
Some of this equipment is already in ZAM. However, there is not enough to run any type of soldering workshop and the safety equipment is as yet not available - solder fumes extractor and safety glasses.
We could build our own Solder fume extractor. Binary kitchen have theirs as a kit. There are plenty of other examples on the Thingiverse. In my case, I created one from a PC cooling fan, an off-the-shelf case, a 12 V LED lamp and a flexible hose from a fire-lighter. I imagine we could come up with something in the middle.
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