"Al Arduengo" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:37:55 -0600, Joel wrote:

It seems these days every chip I want to use in anything is only valuable
in
TSSOP format. The leads are so small my smallest soldering iron covers
three pins at a time. It's hopeless.
Does anyone have any words of experience here?

Joe Loucka AG4QC


Sure. Get a finer soldering iron tip.


Um, Dah!.. that's a given.. Of course I read all about solder paste and hot
air guns and ovens. But each of them take it for granted that you have a ckt
board to solder the chip.. But as we know, breadboarding is for hand wiring
while you build up your project. It looks to me like the days of
breadboarding is just about dead. If I had a cktboard to solder the chips
to, it would mean it was someone else's design and I'm then just a kit
builder. This hobby has a lot of facets to it. ckt development and
experimenting is what kept me going all these year. But to me, it looks like
the deck is stacked for us old guys and Ham Radio in general. We will all
soon be appliance operators.. Toasters with microphones!

Joe Loucka AG4QC



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