{"id":1589,"date":"2024-05-25T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T03:31:49","slug":"guess-i-still-need-smt-soldering-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/guess-i-still-need-smt-soldering-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess I still need SMT soldering practice :-("},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1589\" class=\"elementor elementor-1589\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-87f9566 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"87f9566\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-62b72fa\" data-id=\"62b72fa\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59e3925 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"59e3925\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure id=\"attachment_1536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1536\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1536\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-230x307.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-350x467.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-rotated.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PCB before resoldering the pins<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Apparently, I need to practice more on my SMT soldering skills.\u00a0 I connected up the new angle sensor PCB to the weather station I&#8217;ve breadboarded and I got a return code of -1 from the angle sensor function, which means no sensor was found. \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 The +5 and GND connections were fine to the MLX90316 chip, so it WAS drawing 12.8 mA of current. BUT, pins 3 and 4 (SS and SCLK, respectively) weren&#8217;t making a connection, and after closer inspection (using my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07T4KPYN2\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">YOCTOSUN LED magnifier<\/a>) they were not indeed soldered to the pads.\u00a0 Dang.\u00a0 Well, I fixed that using my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07RVMZNYR\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">YIHUA 939D+ Digital soldering station<\/a> I recently got.\u00a0 And I fixed what looked like a cold solder joint in the GND side of C2.\u00a0 Both the soldering station and the LED headband magnifier are the best investments I&#8217;ve made lately.\u00a0 As a sidenote, I saw reviews of the YIHUA 939D+ on Amazon and some users were saying that it quit on them after a month or so&#8230;hopefully mine is OK because so far it works great!\u00a0 And frankly I don&#8217;t know what I do without the LED headband magnifier because holding a magnifying glass and trying to solder at the same time JUST DOESN&#8217;T WORK!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I need to practice more on my SMT soldering skills.\u00a0 I connected up the new angle sensor PCB to the weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}