In this guest blog post, taken from the Eurocircuits blog, Ben Verwaest considers whether hand-soldering can reach the same high quality result as reflow or wave soldering. In this guest blog post, ...

This FAQ will look at how a PC board loaded with anywhere from just a few to hundreds of components is soldered in one smooth process, and the fascinating technology and systems it takes to do that.

Power Integrations recommends the use of IR/convection reflow for surface-mount attach of the InSOP package. However, the InSOP package was designed with wave soldering in-mind in case IR/ convection ...