These are ridiculously easy with even the cheapest hot-air setup; they're few enough pins you can either pre-tin the pads with an iron/paint with rosin or apply paste manually with a toothpick. The part will literally self align as long as you don't crank the air up so high you blow it off the board. I'm not seeing your problem...?
I do have a hot air station, an AOYUE int 852
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I tried to solder some SMD components, some TSOP-16 stuff and found it hard to place it correctly so that
i will get nice solder joints. And TSOP is much easier than VQFN, where one have to place it to 1/100th mm
And you can't see it, if all solder joints are good. I dislike this kind of soldering. Usual SMD stuff is no problem,
but this brings me to my limits. Probably I need more practise.
If you don't have a hot air station, now's the time; this is JUST the sort of project to practice on. Just remember to populate these parts FIRST on a bare board if you're a noob. Or you can get a cheap breakout and plug it into a DIP, but that'll make your end product pretty big: eBay auction: #382865350172 For other outlines, this experimenter's kit is cheap but very interesting (doesn't have specifically QFN24): eBay auction: #272931785519
Thanks for this, I'll have a look at them.
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