Beginner's Guide to Soldering Electronics Part 3: Surface Mount Soldering

If you've mastered through-hole soldering and now want to give surface mount soldering a try, this video is for you. It features practical demonstrations of how to solder different surface mount components and will have you surface mount soldering like a pro.

Beginner's Guide to Soldering Electronics Part 1

Beginner's Guide to Soldering Electronics Part 2

CHAPTERS:
01:18 Equipment
05:03 Why solder doesn't stick
06:04 SMD resistors, ceramic capacitors and inductors
09:12 Surface mount LEDs
09:48 SOT-23 transistors and diodes
10:27 DPAK
11:35 SOIC and SOP
14:19 Micro USB connector
16:57 Micro SD card socket
19:59 Surface mount electrolytic capacitors
21:04 Tantalum capacitors and diodes
22:21 QFP
25:57 QFN
29:31 PLCC
32:33 Cleaning
33:55 Something's missing…

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[Apollo]

What I learned from this video: you can never have too much flux

[Killian]

I almost exclusively do surface mount soldering because I wanted to get in to modifying and repairing gameboys and this has been huge help with learning. My biggest takeaway is I’ve been overthinking it a lot. Mainly with how and when or how much flux to use. All this stuff is lot more straightforward than I thought I just have to get my technique down.

[TheHouseOfMoth]

Awesome addition to the series, sir! And may I just point out how amazingly clear the audio is?! Simply amazing.

[jackk]

Kudos for demonstrating a large variety of components. I especially liked that you included the micro USB connector and SD card socket. Excellent follow-up to your other soldering videos!

[TechnologyHive]

Very well explained. This guy is my come-to-guy for soldering learning. I have watched many soldering videos on here, this gentleman is by far the best.

[slizgi]

This series of tutorials are just pure gold! Thanks. I have zero experience in this field, I was always somewhat interested, you explained all very well.

[EvilCoopra]

Thank you so much for being honest about using leaded solder! I really hate it when YouTube technicians act like lead-free solder is the only acceptable way to go.

[NotPayton]

extremely helpful. I learned more here than the seemingly hundreds of other videos I've seen about soldering. THANK YOU!

[malcolmyoung]

I am rubbish at soldering to the point of giving up. However having seen how it’s done and the various pieces require to solder.. I feel much more confident when 8 get around to doing this in the future.. this little series has been a bit of a revelation for this novice.. thanks..

[iwales]

Hey Bruce! Thanks for the tips. I have never soldered a surface mount component until today. I got my daughter and myself a couple of FM radio kits from Ali Express (to work on together). There was one 16 pin surface mount IC. Using your instructions (and the You Tube vid on "Pause" while we worked, we got it done and the radio WORKED! I would not have been game to attempt such magical arts without your instruction.

[LordWoytas]

This is the most comprehansive tutorial I’ve ever found! Thank You!❤

[markw]

Nice work Bruce. The most comprehensive video I have seen on surface mount soldering yet. You make it look easy!

[davepolanske]

Outstanding tutorial, many thanks for the straight-forward and comprehensive explanation of soldering different SMD components.

[TechBytesday]

Dude earned my respect and subscription. Quality uninterrupted educational content.

[ivardahl]

By far the best tutorial I've seen on this topic. Very well done, Sir.

[rdhunkins]

Great video, Bruce! Thanks for showing how to deal with bridges!

[dustanburrell]

Downloaded this halfway through to keep as a reference for future. Thank you for the time and care you take in making these videos. I have learned so many useful tips and also discovered i was making so many mistakes in my soldering.

[SidebandSamurai]

This is a terrific and informative video, thank you for your contribution to this hobby!

[paszTube]

Good audio, great picture quality, and a very friendly and likable man explaining and demonstrating it all very clearly. I’m a fan! This channel is an example of excellent YouTubing. Thanks!

[FranksRetroLab]

Fantastic video Bruce!! Can’t wait to see the next one in the series on BGA’s. I have an old MBP with a defective NVIDIA GPU and want to replace it. Thanks again!!