Re: Small batch SMT tools?

john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:51:56 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
 

john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:07:08 -0000 (UTC), Ian
<${send-direct-email-to-news1021-at-jusme-dot-com-if-you-must}@jusme.com>
wrote:
 

On 2024-08-24, john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:

It's crazy that, starting from the earliest days of ICs, you can make
a mistake by rotating a part. You couldn't plug in a tube wrong.

 
Challenge accepted :)

 
And they used the tube convention of counting pins counter-clockwise,
which actually doesn't make much sense for ICs.
 
 
 
 

 
They’re clockwise looking at the bottom, proving once again that dead bug
is the One True Prototyping Style. ;)
 
Cheers
 
Phil Hobbs

 
Cruelty to invertibrates. You should be ashamed.
 
If you solder a surfmount part to an adapter, do you mount all that
upside down?
 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6pfssxz68ay8t64yh6xag/Z356_SN2.JPG?rlkey=o89t5tjsxh31264zbsirjin47&raw=1
 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ydvcds95zvzjq56bzeimr/Z412_Proto.JPG?rlkey=hyejukxbbnk3573engf0if4zt&raw=1

I should try that. ;)

I use SOT and SOIC packages upside down, but they’re fiddlier than DIPs and
TO92s.

Fortunately I invested in a lot of those a few years ago, when the Great
TO92 Purge started.   I should be good for the next century or so. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

 
 
 
 

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