[hpsdr] Janus & Ozy.

[Cecilio Bayona]

Rob Frohne wrote:
> Woh!  I hope you are not correct with that $500 estimate.  I also hope
> there are bare boards available for those of us who prefer to build our
> own.  $500 is way out of my price range.  
> 
> With samples, I expect it should be more like $100 if  you build your
> own.  I don't have a good idea of what it would be without samples
> though.  
> 
> Using a temperature controlled toaster oven, it is pretty fast to build
> these boards, and the solder connections are so much better than
> anything I can do by hand.  Here I have the capability to make solder
> stencils as well.  I could make a few of them, and then builders could
> use them to put the solder paste on, and then mail them to the next guy
> on the list who would do the same.  All the folks would need to have
> their parts all on hand when they do the solder paste application,
> because the paste doesn't stay nice for too long after you apply it.
> (You need to bake it the same day.)  My assembly language class project
> this quarter is to make temperature controllers for the cheap toasters
> found in WalMart to use them for soldering.  The total parts cost is
> around $100 for those.  Wouldn't it be more fun to build your own
> toaster oven soldering station, and then build your Janus and Ozy boards
> with it than to purchase Janus and Ozy already built already by TAPR or
> whoever?
> 
> I noted that the original Atlas boards that were distributed by
> volunteers were much cheaper than the ones from TAPR.  I guess we are
> now paying for the packing and kitting hassles by going to TAPR.  
> 
> 73,
> 
> Rob, KL7NA
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:57 -0600, Cecilio Bayona wrote:
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>> jeffrie cook wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
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>>> I have Atlas and Pinocchio at the ready, and understand from looking at 
>>> WiKi that Janus and Ozy will be ready during the first quarter of 2007, 
>>> but haven't been able to find any estimate of price for those two 
>>> assemblies, has anybody any idea.  Rather relieved that they will only 
>>> be available as completed assemblies.  Great stuff and thanks from Jeff 
>>> Cook G0AFQ.
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>> I've heard it's going to be in the neighborhood of $500 for the two. I 
>> hope not, that is so far away from the initial goal of this group.
>>

I hope so also, $500 is a bit steep for me too.

I'm a fan of oven soldering, I have a tutorial at my site for using a 
toaster oven, and links for using an embossing gun, and a skillet also.

<  URL:http://www.hpsdr.com/Public/Projects/SMT/SMT.html  >

Using an oven the boards I have done have come out beautiful, so it's my 
favorite way of doing SMT boards, the air gun is my next favorite mode, 
the skillet I don't trust, it's only good for single sided boards.

I have on my list of projects to build is a temperature controller for a 
toaster oven. I would be nice to control the temperature profile a 
little more accurately and alert me when critical temperatures are reached.


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