Osso is an expansion cape board for beaglebone black i built and sell. This is how i mount components on the in-house built ready to mount PCB:

First, i spread some fluxant on the to-be-solder side of the PCB and i put soldermasking gum on holes i don’t want to close with tin

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then start populating with components (manually)

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don’t cut (yet) components pins

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it’s time to solder (wave soldering)

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This is the result

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Cut the components pins and remove the soldermask gum

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Manually fix shorts and/or bad solders

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Clean up from solder flux residues with an ultrasonic bath

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… rinse it and and then a second cleanup with a little bit of isopropilic alcool

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When ready, let’s dry it with compressed air and an electric oven

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mount the remaining components

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final test

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All is working great, so, add some optional components, put in a pluriball pocket, and we are ready to ship!

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That’s all.

 

 

 

 

 

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