On 12/21/2017 5:39 PM, mugginsac wrote:
> I have discovered that my hand are not steady enough to hand solder 0603 
> parts. I bought three of the boards  of Charles design and have two new 
> boards left, if anyone is interested. They cost me about $14 a piece. One 
> board has 3 capacitors soldered on but nothing more.
> 
> I am thinking about redoing the board to use 1206 resistors and caps.I have 
> been able to successfully hand solder boards with 1206 parts. It will be a 
> little more expensive because I will have to make the board a little larger 
> to accommodate the 1206 parts.

Sorry about that!

At least I migrated away from the resistor packs.  If you think the
0603 parts are hard to solder, you definitely don't want to be
soldering these (from the 1.0 version of CRAMPS):

http://reprap.org/wiki/File:CRAMPS_V1v0_10k_rn.jpg

:)

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