21 Jun
2010
21 Jun
'10
12:42 p.m.
On Jun 21, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Because there's no pain, it's actually fun. And if I do it myself, I can
use the lead/tin solder which I still believe is more reliable.
I am very unliklely to buy one, but in any case I
wouldn't consider a =
kit=20
unless it came totally unsoldered. That is no
pre-mounted SMD parts...
Why would you want to go through the pain of stuffing your own SMD =
parts?
Note that it wouldn't necessarily make the kit any cheaper. The cost of =
What has that got to do with it?
stuffing the SMD parts was negligible compared to the
total cost of the =
kit.
It is also my understanding that the CPU and FDC are both completely =
unavailable in anything but PLCC packages.=
Actually, through-hole PLCC sockets exist (I built a number of transputer
boards using them and a roadrunner tool...). And there are SMD PLCC
sockets that take the same footprint as the IC. I would want to socket
all ICs unless there were technical reasons (heat disipation or stray
capacitance, for example) not to do so -- my experience is that good
quality sockets do not cause significant unreliability (and for something
like that that's nor eally an issue) but do make debugging and repair a
lot easier.
-tony