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@czahl You can pretty easily get them on digikey or similar but there is this BGA micromodule that you have to solder in an oven I guess. The rest of the parts could potentially be soldered with a classical soldering iron if you have a steady hand. What's your equipment and experience with soldering?
You can pretty easily get them on digikey or similar
yeah, I usually order at RS; there will by some way to get them.
What's your equipment and experience with soldering?
I'm using an ERSA i-CON and Weller 1010 since "some" years. Soldering of small footprints will be done by soldering below a Bresser 3D Microscope. I do not have a reflow oven, so the BGA will be a challenge but should be possible with my hot-air soldering station as well.
When you solder this by hand some pieces have really short contact points, so it is very hard to figure our where you have shorts.
You are absolutely right you have to be very careful. But I also manged to turn the 0-ohm resistor on the ESP32-cam to use the external antenna.
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You can pretty easily get them on digikey or similar
yeah, I usually order at RS; there will by some way to get them.
What's your equipment and experience with soldering?
I'm using an ERSA i-CON and Weller 1010 since "some" years. Soldering of small footprints will be done by soldering below a Bresser 3D Microscope. I do not have a reflow oven, so the BGA will be a challenge but should be possible with my hot-air soldering station as well.
When you solder this by hand some pieces have really short contact points, so it is very hard to figure our where you have shorts.
You are absolutely right you have to be very careful. But I also manged to turn the 0-ohm resistor on the ESP32-cam to use the external antenna.
@czahl You are clearly way better at soldering than I am. I have a bunch of components for a previous mystat version plus the boards, I could send them your way if you're interested in them too. In any case, keep us posted on how it goes!
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@czahl You are clearly way better at soldering than I am. I have a bunch of components for a previous mystat version plus the boards, I could send them your way if you're interested in them too. In any case, keep us posted on how it goes!
@danielfp248 @sepi oh damned, now I have awaken some expectations
@danielfp248 @kirk you as maintainer of this forum, any idea how to exchange PN or email addresses?
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@danielfp248 @sepi oh damned, now I have awaken some expectations
@danielfp248 @kirk you as maintainer of this forum, any idea how to exchange PN or email addresses?
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@danielfp248 you can! Is it not possible to enable the chat plugin in nodebb or some private chat plugin if that exists? I had one other situation like this already.
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I just sent out one PCB and Jack-Cable, let's hope this is the start of some material swapping. I was also thinking about buying 15m of Tygon Chemical Tubing at a european distributor (I got the wrong tubing twice on aliexpress) and then selling it in small quantities to the community. Anyone intersted
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I just sent out one PCB and Jack-Cable, let's hope this is the start of some material swapping. I was also thinking about buying 15m of Tygon Chemical Tubing at a european distributor (I got the wrong tubing twice on aliexpress) and then selling it in small quantities to the community. Anyone intersted
