11 Mar
2005
11 Mar
'05
2:01 p.m.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, woodelf wrote:
Eric Smith wrote:
Regular .050" lead pitch SMT parts are very easy to hand solder. Certainly not
a lot harder than DIPs. Heck I've done .8 mm ball pitch BGAs (CSP) with
nothing more than flux and a Grainger hot air gun...
Peter Wallace
In general, if you want to build things with
state-of-the-art chips,
you're going to have to deal with SMT, whether you want to or not.
I would rather not. SMT is something my craftmanship can't handle. Mostly I
still
would like to say with 5 volt logic and DIP/PLCC packaging because they are
still
easy to get prototypes PCB's made for them. I am not quite ready to try the
'toaster
oven' just yet.
Eric