Beginning with the solar panels we started the manufacturing process of our satellite. We choose these PCB’s because they are the most difficult to solder and we need to know how much power we will be able pull out of the panels to continue with the rest of the satellites electronics design.
Some weeks ago we decided to buy a reflow oven (www.reflow-kit.com) which made the process actually quite simple. I decided to make a small workshop showing interested people how our new reflow oven works. You may watch the videos (german) we made while working on the panels.
The next step is to assemble the boards and experiment with them. The results of the experiments will show us which constraints in terms of electric power we wil have.