Hi everyone!
In the last few months i've been learning a lot from this forum, what does what etc..... Now i've got some boards from The Bean and some questions regarding general board manufacturing!
1: Do i mount the components flush to the board, or some distance from it?
2: Is there an order which works best? for instance: first resistors, then capacitors etc....
3: what kind of wire to use?
I will post some pics of my progress, all help will be much appreciated!
Greetz, Paul
1) I mount most pretty close to flush. Sometimes caps won't mount as close because of size of lead spacing.
2) I do it usually in this order... resistors, diodes, sockets (for IC's), caps, transistors, pots, then I put the IC's in the sockets last
3) I use between 22 and 24 gauge.
Josh
Not much to add here, except that the 24 gauge pre-tinned wire available from smallbear is excellent.
I ordered some solid core wire from banzai, close to 24 gauge (we euro's don't use the "gauge", we're metric over here!) i'll see how it works. Any more insights that a newbie should know before starting off? By the way, just ordered the parts today, so it's gonna be at least a week before i start soldering...
Thanx already for the support!
http://www.musikding.de/index.php/cat/c161Solid-Wire.html (http://www.musikding.de/index.php/cat/c161Solid-Wire.html) has a nice collection of solid wire...
www.uk-electronic.de (http://www.uk-electronic.de) an www.newtone-online.nl (http://www.newtone-online.nl) those are some good abd reliable sources in europe... much better as banzai.
Have fun building... veel succes...