1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
1:16 p.m.
Let me echo Tony Duell's recommendation of
turned-pin (machined-pin)
sockets. I use them exclusively, even in kits I buy (I throw the
supplied cheap sockets in a box and use my own).
Actually I built a couple of kits recently and did use the suppleid
formed-pin sockets. But theyr'e simple enough (a telephone ringing
voltage detector [1] and a monitoring audio amplifier based roudn the
LM386() that if the socket fails it'll be very easy to trace and and that
point I fit a turned-pin one. Not like a RAM IC where a bad conenctions
will cause faults that would be hell to trace.
[1] This seems to have been designed by 'Mad Man Muntz'. It worked a lot
better after I added a resistor and capacitor (to totally different parts
of the circuit.
-tony