Re: gEDA-user: Another board with gEDA/PCB

[Darrell Harmon <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan McMahill wrote:

> Darrell Harmon wrote:
>
> > Stephen Meier wrote:
> >
> > > Let me echo ...hello.....hello....hello...
> > >
> > > I have had very complex board built with these tools. If the boards 
> > > anyone else is trying to build dont work it is probably do to the 
> > > manufacturing process of the boards and not due to the design tools. 
> > > Hey if you can attach a bga with a toaster more power to you (or the 
> > > oven got the bread the right collor of brown). using companies that 
> > > are good at depositing 900 pin bgas has been successfull.
> > >
> > > Steve Meier
> > I did successfully attach the BGA using a $20 toaster oven.  I used a 
> > MAX6675 thermocouple to SPI converter connected to the parallel port 
> > of my laptop along with a relay to switch the power to the oven.  I 
> > set the oven on broil and got mostly infrared heating.  I can post 
> > the temperature profiles if anyone is interested.
>
>
> I'd like to see the profile.  Now when you outfit your toaster oven 
> with ethernet, then I'll be impressed ;)  Still, thats pretty cool.  I 
> take it that you're actually regulating temperature not just 
> monitoring it?
>
> -Dan
I have linked it on http://dlharmon.com/solder/smd.html  It is toward 
the bottom and there is an explaination there.

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Darrell Harmon
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