Electronics used to be so straightforward - everything based on 1/10th inch spacings. Well, not any more!
By Julian
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
Good morning all…
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
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i am trying to solder some of my ics… with no good success. can you show sometime how you solder these tiny ics ?
Ultra small packages that need a huge adapter to make them usable for developers, good job world.
S.O.I.C.s seem like little S.O.D.s
Perhaps to use them anyway, try to bend the pins under the body of the IC, like you see in the clip at 4.16min. That way they just might fit on the pads of the adapter PCB.
I just had an idea… What about making a SOIC breadboard? There are sockets (like the one you used for the SOIC-8 of the PICs), so we could put lots of pins in a row and then connect them to a normal breadboard. OK, now it's patent pending.
For the wider package you might be able to get it on there by "J"ing the leads (fold them under the package gull-wing style)
So, how do you wire wrap SMD chips???????
There is a third DIP pitch… was used in old ram chips… I'm going to say 0.4" but not completely certain
Put a pin between legs and chip and curl the legs under the chip, you'll be able to solder it easily.
Now that I can solder with hot air I like sufacemount 🙂 Can hot air damage components ?
I hate having to hunt on eBay for discontinued IC's in DIP packages because you can only buy them in surface mount packages nowadays!!! Surface mount may be good for production, but how in hell are you supposed to prototype with the things?!
Very punny title, Julian…
This could be an opportunity for some clever person to start a crowd funded project to allow SMDs to be dropped into the gutter of a suitably special breadboard and be magically connected to the standard 0.1 inch matrix. I'm going to register the trademark Hybreadboard right now 😉
This seems like a problem. waiting to be fixed with hammers…I'm just not sure, what or who needs hiting with them 🙂
So, in the name of learning, SMT chips that don't have a through hole alternative need the "adapter"?