Well when I was hacking my nvidia card a few years back, I found the swinging magnifying glass with lights (vs reading glasses) overtop the soldering station to be the only way I could handle that surface mount stuff.
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Just got in a part for a project at work, one tiny problem though. Seems it should have been ordered as a DIP IC but the folks that help do the paper pushing ordered a "better" version. Where "better" is µSOP.
Piccy note "normal" 8 pin IC and the penny.
Oh well. The job keeps me in Jeep parts. :)
Well when I was hacking my nvidia card a few years back, I found the swinging magnifying glass with lights (vs reading glasses) overtop the soldering station to be the only way I could handle that surface mount stuff.
How and with what did you take that picture??
Dave in Columbus did pass the time by typing:
Just my digital camera. A Cannon S200 2.0 megapixel set to "macro" and held about 4" or so from the chip. Only thing I don't like about the S200 is it's lousy for dim-light conditions or backlit subjects even with the flash. Then again I bought it just for a toy to do website stuff and surveys. The newer 4-5mp cameras are amazing.
You could have your design department make a carrier... the surface mount device is most likely the same pin-out.
surface mount to DIP carrier - $10 correct device with correct package - $1 putting the design department through the agony - priceless
JimG did pass the time by typing:
made one myself, it was quicker. Just a simple eight pin carrier and some wire wrap wire. Now it looks like a teeny spider sitting in a web.
Indeedy. :) Except I am the design department. :/
It's the contracting department that deserves being raked over the coals. But that comes later. *evil grin*
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