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Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together?

From Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded
Subject Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together?
Date 2018-06-26 22:40 +0100
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On 06/26/18 17:51, dashley@gmail.com wrote:
> We do embedded software, but the hardware is produced by our customer (we don't control it).
>
> Sometimes we need to attach a wire (for monitoring a serial or I2C interface, or for timing instrumentation) to a surface-mount IC where the pins are VERY close together.  The pins are so close together that I can't solder a wire to it, even using high-power optics and the finest soldering iron tip available.
>
> Are there any special tools, equipment, training, or techniques that might help with this?
>
> Thanks!

Part of the hardware design is to put test points on the board where
they are needed and always build in enough diagnostic capability :-)...

Chris

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How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? dashley@gmail.com - 2018-06-26 09:51 -0700
  Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2018-06-26 10:21 -0700
  Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2018-06-26 22:40 +0100
    Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? Dave Nadler <drn@nadler.com> - 2018-06-27 18:31 -0700
      Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? Evgeny Filatov <evgeny.filatov@ieee.org> - 2018-06-28 13:10 +0300
  Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2018-06-26 17:06 -0700
    Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-06-28 00:40 +0100
      Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2018-06-28 12:03 -0700
        Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2018-06-28 20:13 -0400
  Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com - 2018-06-26 19:29 -0700
  Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? Ed Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-06-27 09:53 -0700
  Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> - 2018-06-27 20:28 +0100
  Re: How to Solder a Wire to Surface-Mount IC With Pins VERY Close Together? 1 Lucky Texan <1luckytexan@gmail.com> - 2018-08-03 09:47 -0700

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