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Registered Member #3414
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Middle pin was the one that caused all the problems, but I sorted it.
First one lost a leg, second one made a bid for freedom before I'd soldered anything, I think it's probably reached the outer regions of the known universe by now. Third one lost a leg, fourth one submitted without a struggle
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Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 03:19PM
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 168
I've become a fan of placing a small dab of hot glue then dropping the chip into it upside down. Tacking the chip to a hard immovable surface makes it a bit easier.
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:29AM
Location: UK St. Albans
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I use 0.1" blob board, though you can make an equivalent footprint with a couple of cuts on 0.1" stripboard.
Take the middle pin of a SOT-23-5 (also works for every other pin of a SOT-8/14/16 0.05" pitch package) and bend it up. Now the remaining pins can be soldered down onto the 0.1" grid.
Put a blob of solder on one pad first, and then sweat one leg onto that pad first to immobilise the IC. Solder the other legs properly. That's not the way we were taught in soldering school, but I find I only have two hands, not three. Re-flux that first joint just to make sure.
Finally solder wires, I usually take a bit of 7/0.2 apart to provide them, to the 'up' pins, and tack them down elsewhere on the blob board.
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I ended up leaving the middle pin where it was (actually, bending it down further) then bending the other four. After trying various 'third hands', I ended up sticking it in a lump of blu-tac. Blu-tac can also be used to pin it down as you add the legs.
What's the best way to clean the flux off?
I plan to use it on 0.1" strip-board. I've already scraped it.
I did look at some of the adaptors available, but decided to try this first.
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If I was trying to use this on strip board I'd glue it down 'dead-bug' style first and use either >0.2mm enamelled wire (the sort with meltable enamel' or 30g wire-wrap wire.
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While I feel I've achieved something, I do need to find a better way, this is a bit of a nightmare, it's my fourth attempt. It still might work, but I'll be surprised if it does, I'm just populating the rest of the board. It's a simple audio buffer/boost, just an exercise to see if I can get a high speed op amp to do anything other than oscillate, if anything at all
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if you have a laser printer then making little single sided prototype pcbs is pretty easy with the toner transfer method. I got it down to the point I could bang out a small proto board in half an hour. If you do everything in SMT then theres no drilling. I recommend "Press'n'Peel Blue" for this process.
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