Breeze Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 (edited) Hi! I just got my GM5 chips and boards (Thank you, Thorsten!!), and while I'm a long time electronics DIYer, I've never done SMD. I've looked at several tutorial pages and videos on the web so I'm ok with the techniques and I have an old PC motherboard I'm going to experiment on before I touch the GM5 kit. BUT I realize I have to get flux and very thin solder and when I went looking on sites for these I realized that there's many different kinds of each. For example Digikey has all these types of fluxes and many different types of solder (lead-free, water-soluble, rosin activated, solid wire (no flux), etc... So what should I use for SMD? Perhaps better: what are you using? Thanks for any tips! Steve Edited January 16, 2010 by Breeze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted January 17, 2010 Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 Thin good, rosin core good, lead free bad. I use 0.5mm diameter Stannnol S-Sn60Pb39Cu1. I've never used flux. I don't necessarily recommend doing that, just saying you can go without. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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