Real excellent work. How do you make the silk screen?
One word concerning soldering of components:
Appearantly you cut the wires after soldering. It's better practice to shorten the wires before soldering. That way the cut off ends will also be covered with a thin layer of soldering tin preventing oxydation, hence longer life time of the entire circuit.
For equal wire length use a 1mm plastic or metal piece glued on the bottom blade of the cutter.
Real excellent work. How do you make the silk screen?
One word concerning soldering of components:
Appearantly you cut the wires after soldering. It's better practice to shorten the wires before soldering. That way the cut off ends will also be covered with a thin layer of soldering tin preventing oxydation, hence longer life time of the entire circuit.
For equal wire length use a 1mm plastic or metal piece glued on the bottom blade of the cutter.
Good question. I find that I need to look into some form of plating too. For hand soldering I sprayed a thin layer of acrylic after etching which prevented oxidization. But that does not work with hot air or heating in a oven or fry pan(sparkfun).
The "plating" looks like photoresist thats been left on the board.
According to the manufacturers of the photoresist boards I use it can be left on as a conformal coating and soldered through but I've not had much luck doing this.