17 Jul
2011
17 Jul
'11
11 a.m.
My experience with the PET has made me re-assess the
old adage of reseating
socketed chips as a first step in trying to get something the doesn't work
to work. Cheap old sockets may not take kindly to having something yanked
out of them that have been snuggly entrenched for 30+ years. Far from
helping to fix a fault, it actually may introduce a new one.
My gut reaction is that if a socket is in a state where you can't pull th
IC and replace it without damaging the socket, then the socket is bad
anyway. Ift may be making proper contact now, but I'd not want to trust
it.
So yes, you may have introduced a fauly and had to replace the sockets,
but if you hadn't, the sockets may well ahv given trouble a little later
on anyway.
-tony