Soldering Surface Mount LEDs on a Through-Hole PCB

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Soldering Surface Mount LEDs on a Through-Hole PCB

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EMSL customer Peter T. painstakingly soldered surface-mount LEDs (tinier than a grain of rice) onto the through-hole PCB of a Peggy matrix. Peter soldered 625 separate LEDs onto the board with the help of a jig, and Peggy worked perfectly with the surface-mount LEDs.

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