Gikfun DIY SMD/SMT Components Practice Board Soldering Skill Training Kit AE1173

Great quality little board. Cheap and effective for honing your skills with smd soldering. Various size components and ICs. I'm a noob, but with the right equipment, it'z easy enough.

If you have had at least some experience with electronic soldering on larger, traditional through hole components but want to try your hand at SMD, then this is a great way to get started. This is a very high quality kit with a good assortment of different size parts to practice on. And very reasonably priced. For about the price of a movie, you can’t go wrong. And even if you make a few mistakes along the way while you are learning, it doesn’t matter because the kit was never intended to do anything constructive except teach you how to solder SMD joints. Having said that, it DOES offer some useful ways to check the quality of your work. If you hold the board up to a strong light, you can see the circuit trace patterns and use them to make some tests with a volt/ohm meter. For example, on the right side of the board, resistors 1-10 are connected in series and there are a couple of test points near R7 and R8 that you can use to check continuity on all 10 resistors at one time. Other test points connect to more complicated combinations of series and parallel networks and you will have to break out the calculator to figure out what the correct resistance, capacitance, etc. SHOULD be, but this is all stuff you need to know anyway if you ever intend to do troubleshooting on electronic circuits.

I’m about to take on SMD soldering for the first time and found this board helpful to understand the smallest size components I can solder by hand. Yes, it’s just a small practice board (doesn’t do anything) and yes, a beginner with some lessons (online videos) and plenty of flux can do this! It’s a great challenge.

Excellent quality kit that has various surface-mounted components to learn and practice soldering skills. It took me some time to learn, and it withstood repeated soldering on and off to become good enough to attempt a repair on my vintage Macs. A very low price for what you get and really does what I needed. Highly recommend.

Great product to practice soldering skills before starting a project Cheap and efficient, comes with different components so you can practice better

This kit works great for practicing micro soldering, however, there are other kits out there which are cheaper, with an equivalent number of parts of an equivalent size, which put on a light show telling you if you got it right or not.. honestly, given that fact, and having just completed working on both kits, I don't get why you would get one which doesn't include any LEDs, and a circuit which does something so you can know you have a good connection on all your IC connections.. This kits fine.. I enjoyed practicing on it.. but, using the multimeter to try to determine connection quality wasn't nearly as satisfying as hookup up a 9V, and watching it go.. seeing an LED was out, and trouble-shooting what went wrong in that circuit to reach a resolution.

Easy to practice and learn

I have done a pretty fair amount of THT soldering but never surface mount, if I can solder these I'll be able to solder just about anything. I'll give more details after Christmas when I'll have a chance to try them out. If all goes well I'll update my rating. Right now I'm not sure. Well it turns out that this is a really good learning tool the parts are tiny and a challenge but not impossible. I made some mistakes but learned a lot, had a lot of fun and really got the hang of it. I may buy another one to get some more practice overall a good experience! As for instructions there are more than enough you tube videos if you need help. Anyone who couldn't find instructions just didn't look.

This was my first venture into smd soldering and gave me the practice and confidence to build a digital clock and fm radio kits afterwards.

良いところ ・安価 ・色々な部品のはんだ付けの練習ができる 良くないところ ・動作するわけではないのであまり関係ないですが、本当に何の知識もないとどこに何を付けたらよいかわからないです

Mein Sohn liebt das löten. Jederzeit wieder

Bueno Par aprender

These things are wicked small but damn is it good for practice