On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Vasile Surducan wrote: > Unfortunately placing manually RF components on a circuit running at > 2.5Ghz (not higher frequency where is a pain deeply in the ...s) is > not easy. I'm doing this from a few years (including 0201, but mostly > 0402) under microscope and it takes too long for my eyes. Also you > can't solder properly a 0.8mm pitch 90 ball BGA (not talking about > 500+ BGA ) only with a lot of struggle. The speed is not as important > as the precision. Ok now I understand, my frame of reference was more 0805 parts but for smaller parts and BGA makes a lot of sense to use such a machine. Thanks for the clarification Mike -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist