Soldering jig for AS5600/AS5601 rotation sensor

This is a jig to help center an AS5600/AS5601 Hall-effect rotary sensor on a SOIC-8 breakout board (I used this one). This is important as the sensor likes to have its magnet centered to within 0.25mm.

I did the centering by first taking a macro picture of the IC and figuring out where on the IC printing the center lies (on mine, it lay on the lower right bump of the "8" near the center). Then I put a drop of slowish setting PVA glue between the PCB and the chip, loaded things into a jig, and adjusted (by poking the chip with a very thin screwdriver) under a microscope so the right part of the printing shows up in the peep-hole in the jig.

I started the soldering with the jig on, but after a few legs the jig fell off, but by then all was well.

Actually, while I was pretty precise and used a microscope, to be honest my initial alignment of the chip with the jig by eye (admittedly, while wearing reading glasses) seems to have been within the 0.25mm tolerance. So you may get lucky and be able to just align the chip with the central rectangle of the jig by eye without any microscopy or macro photography.