Do you like the LED on Battery?
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I just wish we had more color options in LEDs or that I atleast knew how to switch mine out with another color.
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I don't want to thread-jack too badly (although I do it a lot), but...
Air is really handy for hidden pins, like BGA or the packages where the pads are under the chip body. It's also handy for removing SMT parts.
"Flood and suck" is the method you'd most commonly use with a chip that dense, and you use the pen for it. You flood an entire side with solder, then using either braid or a sucker, you heat it up and suck all the solder off you just put down. The theory is that you'll get all the solder bridging the pins, but surface tension will hold the solder that flowed UNDER the pins and onto the pads. The pads do, of course, need rosin. A microscope is also crucial for examining the work afterwords and making sure you didn't leave any bridges. If you did, you don't try to fix them individually, you just flood-and-suck again.
I do all my work under a usb camera microscope to a 37" HD monitor. It's kinda like remote surgery though. You have to get the brain to accept that image and your fine motor skills to do what you want instead of what your brain demands. It's very high stress and I can't go more than a couple hours before needing at least an hour off for something that dense.
If you're going to use air, you also need solder paste instead of wire solder.
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I think the LED is sweet on them. Especially having a blue light. Makes it easy for a non smoker to realize it's not a cig.
Unfortunately, no. It's a surface mount (smt) device. In other words, it just lays on a little circuit board and the solder not only makes the connections, but also holds it in place.
If they were the same, you could pop the whole board out and splice the battery wires - but that wouldn't make a lot of sense since you'd just be killing another battery... 
To put it into perspective, the LED itself is around 0.024" × 0.012" x .0098" tall (standard 0603 package dimension converted to inches) - that's not something you just run around picking up anyway. Extremely sharp tweezers and a magnifier, or my preferred method, an incredibly teeny vacuum pen and a digital microscope.
To put it into perspective, the LED itself is around 0.024" × 0.012" x .0098" tall (standard 0603 package dimension converted to inches) - that's not something you just run around picking up anyway. Extremely sharp tweezers and a magnifier, or my preferred method, an incredibly teeny vacuum pen and a digital microscope.
Hey here's another vote for purple LEDs!
I like the blue LED on my XL the best, but purple would be outa this world!
I like the blue LED on my XL the best, but purple would be outa this world!
I took 1 of my blue led's and colored it purple, using a purple marker, not crayon, but the colored markers? works 4 me
this is why i have purple led now instead of blue..
this is why i have purple led now instead of blue..
so the big question is, what KIND of purple marker? like, the purple sharpies they have out, so it doesn't rub off?
like, the purple sharpies they have out, so it doesn't rub off?
OH ok thanks PawPaw and Adrenalynn, I didn't really think a techno-idiot like me was about to pull that one off but it was a thought.
Now, i wonder how well a purple sharpie would cover a green LED? lol and for that matter are we talking about the LED itself or the "ashcap"? with the marker idea
Now, i wonder how well a purple sharpie would cover a green LED? lol and for that matter are we talking about the LED itself or the "ashcap"? with the marker idea
Actually, coloring the LED itself should work pretty well. Some Blackberry users do that so the trackball will light up in color.
Take a pair of pliers (smaller is better) and grip the "ash cap" gently. Twist & pull and it will come off.
That little rectangular thing thing with silver ends in the middle of the little round circuit board is the LED. You can make it light just to be sure.
After you color it with a sharpie, just push the "ash cap" back on with your fingers.
Take a pair of pliers (smaller is better) and grip the "ash cap" gently. Twist & pull and it will come off.
That little rectangular thing thing with silver ends in the middle of the little round circuit board is the LED. You can make it light just to be sure.
After you color it with a sharpie, just push the "ash cap" back on with your fingers.
so the big question is, what KIND of purple marker?
I think sharpie's the brand? i was kinda having a menopause moment when shopping lol
it had big wet tip on the marker tho
worked really good..i know because while laying in bed, lites out, i see the led lite up from the reflection on the mirrors on top of my bed lol8-o
excuse this wiccan whilst she blush
...that. is so. so. so. so. awesome. i have 2 black shorties, and 2 chrome regs, and i might make ONE of each purple by doing that. purple is my fave color and i have UMPTEEN purple sharpies! thanks for mentioning that tip!
(and i, too, was actually thinking it was meant to color the 'ash cap' until explained.)
purple is my fave color and i have UMPTEEN purple sharpies! thanks for mentioning that tip!(and i, too, was actually thinking it was meant to color the 'ash cap' until explained.)
oooh, ima hafta try that...
i would be careful with coloring a green light purple tho. with a blue light it would be fine, with a green you may get a funky non-color.
i would be careful with coloring a green light purple tho. with a blue light it would be fine, with a green you may get a funky non-color.
being how i grew up in the 70's im feeling purple on green would look way cool, but then thats just me
lolot//im callin it a nite, moon is waning, and its a good time 4 me, to ward off negative energies lol, etc,
ya'll sleep tight, nity nite
hmm... this is true. well, even ONE purple batt is going to freaking make my day!!!!
no, no, i mean because the colors may not blend. purple *and* green may be awesome. but because purple is red/blue, and green is blue/yellow--you're mixing 3 primary colors='neutral'. so you may get a brownish or off-purple light.
I forgot to mention that if you don't like the way it turns out, you can clean the ink off with a Q-tip moistened (NOT wet!) with alcohol.
oh! then someone try it. and tell me how it goes. 
i think i might have a go at my green with a blue marker... i figure at worst, i'll get turquoise!
i think i might have a go at my green with a blue marker... i figure at worst, i'll get turquoise!- Status
