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PCB stencil layer for cutout
I ordered a multiple PCBs which all arrived fine. I never included a stencil because of the high cost for it compared to the PCBs. Now I combined a few board designs to fit on a single stencil, so I ...
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Stencil Required for Through Hole Components
I was creating a pcb board that is mostly made of header pins that are suppose to connect to adapters. I was wondering if a stencil is required for soldering through hole components on a bare bone pcb....
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Why order a laser stencil?
Quick two part question on PCB manufacturing. I am looking to order a prototype PCB and all the manufactures I've gotten a quote from all offer to include a Laser stencil, some charge for the stencil ...
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Stencil for PCB etching?
I have been looking into homemade PCB etching, since ordering PCBs takes longer than I would like. I have seen PCB stencils for applying solder paste, and I am wondering if it is possible to use a ...
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Half-etched fiducials Vs through-cut fiducials
While making PCB, I added 8 fiducials (fids) marks so that pick and place machines use these marks as referent points on the PCB to position the surface mount components (Packages) during assembly.
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Good practice when designing a PCB and stencil?
While I generally use nothing smaller that SOIC chips or 0603 passive components, I have to design a PCB with a WSON-14 IC with tiny 0.5mm pin spacing and with an exposed pad.
While I generally use a ...
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Solder paste for stencil
I'm going to solder a small pcb with reflow process and I'd like to use a stencil for that because the components are too tiny for hand soldering iron.
The pcb has a QFN32 (0.5mm pitch and exposed pad)...
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