USB: Schematic for PIC16F877 and USBN9604

Guest · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:43 pm

Trampas - Sorry for the long delay in the reply - no excuse other than busy. I have a Edsyn soldering iron for home use, and work has some very nice ones. Is the mini-wave possibly a spade tip? I don't want to get off topic too much, and will try google some more on fine pitch soldering, but this is really the first I heard of it being so easy with the correct technique and soldering tip.

Mark/MGP/PCM - Thank you much for the PCB vendor info Very Happy

I will be looking forward to trying them out (based on pricing).

I don't mean to stay off CCS compiler topic too much, but what PCB software are you using? At work, price has no limit, but I also want to do stuff at home on my own on a smaller budget.

Thanks in advance, as I think this is of value to many CCS users too Very Happy

Mark · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 2838 Location: Atlanta, GA

PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

This thread has comments on soldering technique and a link
to some video clips. One of the clips shows the miniwave technique.
http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19747

bdavis · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:26 am

Oops - forgot to log in last time...

Thanks for the links Very Happy

! The mini-wave looks really nice. I'll probably sell my Edsyn iron, since they don't have mini-wave tips for it that I have seen. I have done the pin to pin, and do get lots of shorts, then have to clean it all up. I've found that flux also helps to remove the coating on magnet wire if you are using some of that for proto's or whatever. Thanks for the feedback, as the mini-wave is new to me!

alexz · Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 133 Location: UK

PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

You're right, they're dead links. I know they once worked in the past.
I have emailed Pace and asked them to fix the links.

bdavis · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:04 pm

I just used the .pdf's...