Mike Hatch wrote:
That chip, can't remember the style, had
wider pins for heat sinking,
some had 2 or 3 pins per side as one large tab for greater effect.
They can be a bugger to get off, hot air reflow seem to work better.
Have used a paint stripping gun on low heat to good effect, but use care.
Other than that I've not been able to find any datasheets, not much
help I'm afraid.
Dremel or cut off the leads and remove the leftovers if you
have a
known bad part.
Trying to save a component that is questionable and endangering the
possibly irreplaceable PC board when chip replacements are available
is not a good idea.
Certianly.. But in this particular case, firstly, is a replacement chip
availale, nobody seems to have heard of it. And secondly, most flippy
drive spindle motor PCBs are single- sided, maybe the odd one is double
sided. I've never seen a multi-layer one. And the circuitry is slow
enough hhat you could repair lifted traces, etc with kludgewires and
expect it to work afterwards.
So I doubt you'd ruin the PCB beyond repair, and the chip might not be
availale. In this case it might be worth trying to save the IC....
-tony