10 Sep
2013
10 Sep
'13
12:01 p.m.
But I
went for small size and ease of reproducability by multiple
different skill sets. My board has two DIPs on it [...]
If you can solder well
enough to fit 2 DIPs (and associated
components, I gurss), then you can solder 100 DIPs. It's the same
skill. pretty good chance of making the small board work
first time, and
probably has a decent chance of finding and fixing the bad joint if
there's an issue.
Maybe, maybe not. It probably depends on their skill at faultfidnign, and
the test gear they ahve, but it might well be easier to find a bad
connection in a board of simple components where that bad connection
causes a specific fault than in the microcontrolelr-based system when
that bad joint ause random misbehaviour of the microcontroller.
-tony