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Mod Chips - Need Soldering Help

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Chu

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Hello all. I consider myself fairly good at soldering. I did the Radeon 9500 Pro -> 9800 pro mods successfully (moving a surface mount resistor), and I've built plenty of circults some of which did deal with surface mount components as well. Based on this, I thought I could handle the soldering needed to install a mod chip . . .

. . . then I started to read the directions -- and I'm a little scared now. The big issue the solder points to the PS2 bios. Essentially, it involves soldering wires to pins with SO-8 spacing (we're talking less then a millimeter here). I've successfully soldered SO-8 components to pads before -- but this is completly different. Any suggestions on how to handle these incredibly small soldering points? I know the #1 suggestion is to get a 1 mil tip, but that is almost impossible to find locally even for my weller.

-Chu
 
BTW, one idea I've had is to wirewind incredibly high gauge wires around the pins - and then to solder that to the main wire heading back to the mod chip. Any idea how high gauge I can go before the increased resistance becomes an issue?
 
Originally posted by: SickBeast
Wow, they'll let you mod a PS2 w/o a lock on AT??
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I have a ton of R2 dvd's between me (anime) and my mom (kdrama), plus I want to know how to do it since there is good money to be made off of DDR freaks around here 🙂

-Chu
 
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