@starkatt we really ought to try it sometime

it might make things easier for a project we're working on, because Linear apparently decided that it would be fine to have the exposed pad of an MSOP be the chip's *only* ground connection
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@starkatt do you have any advice for getting into it that might help? We've never really tried at all and I'm not sure what are good tools and the like.
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@starkatt that soldering station looks like a rebranded Yihua, and Yihua are usually pretty good for the price point from what we've heard!

i think we'd probably go for different paste, because we prefer to use lead-free when possible, but might try that for initial experiments since 63/37 is always nicer to work with. will have to do some research for what alloys are good for paste because i'm sure it's not the same as for wire solder, but SAC305 is probably fine
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@starkatt and yeah we're not looking for ideal, because the ideal probably costs like $10k and we're not going to be getting that for ourselves or convincing our boss to get it for work

but good enough is fine
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