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By rackley
-  Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:14 am #17168
Yes, it makes fiscal sense to spend $10 to see if you can effectively solder SOIC before ordering $600 worth of PCBs and SOIC parts :-) Now I know I'm good with using SOIC parts but to stay away from SOT-23 and the like.

But soldering them to wires would be hell indeed..

By reklipz
-  Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:05 pm #17170
rackley wrote:before ordering $600 worth of PCBs and SOIC parts :-)
you plan on hand soldering all of those?!

By rackley
-  Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:38 pm #17174
Not if I don't have to... See my post about dunking a PCB into liquid tin..

By reklipz
-  Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:09 pm #17176
ahhh, gotcha

By rackley
-  Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:26 pm #17183
BUT... Even if I do have to solder them all by hand, it's not really that difficult and the SOIC parts are almost always cheaper than DIP or other larger footprints.

By reklipz
-  Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:28 pm #17184
rackley wrote:BUT... Even if I do have to solder them all by hand, it's not really that difficult and the SOIC parts are almost always cheaper than DIP or other larger footprints.
Yeah.

How many units are you looking at?
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