8SOIP dead bugging on to a DIP socket - Page 1
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author: BiOzZ
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2013, 10:26:32 pm
content: Hi y'all! im new here my English is not so good (for an american) and i dont generally use forums so bear with me XPi recently got a TI BQ32000DR RTC in an 8 pin SOIP package and i want to use it in a threw hole perf board so i used somthing i have dont before and stuck in a bunch of snipped leads in to the 8 pin DIP socket and soldered them in place .. than flipped the pins up side down on the RTC and pressed them on too the top (to keep the same pinout) and bent the leads down and snipped them than soldered them on (with my shaky ass hands) and got thisOh yes it is slopy i know i just have really shaky hands and only a magnifying glass!Also a big fan of the EEVBlog! Keep it up mate!

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 02, 2013, 11:09:56 pm
content: Cool.I prefer to use machine pin sockets for this.

author: BiOzZ
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 02, 2013, 11:56:39 pm
content: same here generally but this is all i had at the momentit was a bit harder to solder the leads but in the end it worked out fine seeing how it was just going to go right in to a perf!

author: Things
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 03, 2013, 01:32:40 pm
content: Nice idea! I used the other side of the pin headers

author: BiOzZ
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 03, 2013, 05:14:07 pm
content: Quote from: Things on April 03, 2013, 01:32:40 pmoh wow nice! i would be wayyy to paranoid to do that XD ... if i ever got the balls i would have put it on a perf or handled it like it was a $100,000 scope XD

author: bxs
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 03, 2013, 11:00:44 pm
content: These days we need to that all the time, DIPs are almost dead...

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 03, 2013, 11:07:11 pm
content: Quote from: bxs on April 03, 2013, 11:00:44 pmYep. I used to bitch all the time about manufacturers not making DIP versions of things for prototyping, but eventually I just gave up and started making my own... SOICs get soldered into DIP sockets with wire, then hot-glued to protect the wires. I've got some quick breakout boards I made up one day for smaller stuff (I particularly like the ones for SOT-23 and SOT-223 that are TO-220 form factor). Then it all gets white heat shrink tubing over it so I can write the part number in black marker.

author: notsob
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 03, 2013, 11:39:04 pm
content: This texas board is a reasonable bit of kit to have handy for making your own pluginshttp://www.digikey.com.au/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?WT.z_header=search_go&lang=en&keywords=DIP%20Adapter%20Evaluation%20Module&x=13&y=15&cur=USD

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 01:21:35 pm
content: not gonna lie, thats freakin expensive.

author: Noize
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 01:30:54 pm
content: Quote from: peter.mitchell on April 04, 2013, 01:21:35 pm27cents per an adaptor is pretty reasonable I think.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 01:38:33 pm
content: Quote from: Noize on April 04, 2013, 01:30:54 pmNo it's not, the chips going on them often cost less than that. I make my SO8-DIP8 adapters out ofthese- beat $0.07. Smaller adapters (SOT-23, etc) are made from scraps of phenolic PCB that would have been thrown away otherwise - beat $0.00.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 03:25:24 pm
content: Prototyping is always going to be more expensive than production runs. You are not going to use this for anything else than prototyping or one-offs. The $0.07 sockets are only a better alternative if the time it takes to wire it up and solder it over a proper PCB isn't worth $0.20 to you.

author: Alana
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 03:27:58 pm
content: How about we make libary of PCB designs for typical SMD to DIP adapters?If [or rather] when i make some for me i'll share them. Software: old protel

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 03:36:29 pm
content: Quote from: alm on April 04, 2013, 03:25:24 pmIt's not, because I'm not doing it at work and so wouldn't be paid for that time no matter what I used it for. Your free time isn't worth anything unless you spend all of it as overtime at work or you don't actually have any.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 03:40:45 pm
content: Or if your free time is a limited resource that you would prefer to spend some other way than fiddling with home-made adapters.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 05:40:03 pm
content: Mike from Mikeselectricstuff.co.uk has a nice protoboard he made for this that has the whole lot in one, and is designed to be cut up into pieces as well. Check with him

author: TerminalJack505
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 07:15:16 pm
content: I had to make these just the other day. These things just keep getting smaller. Meanwhile my eyesight isn't getting any better.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 07:47:29 pm
content: Tell me about it, went today to optometrist and got the good news I need multifocals. They cost about the same price as the equivalent mass of gold. Good news is that the far vision is unchanged from what it was 5 years ago, and the near vision I had done the Jerry Pournelle way, to be the best at a comfortable viewing distance from the monitor, rather than for a book or newspaper. Optometrist as well has done some upgrades, now using a Mac pro 21 inch as the chart display. Next upgrade I suggested was getting the second 27 inch display and putting it on the wall and use it as well. Interesting technology in use there, to measure the curvature of the cornea, and to measure intraocular pressure, using a small soft hammer hitting the eye and reading the force.

author: BiOzZ
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2013, 07:57:13 pm
content: i can order some of those adapters and wait a week than solder it up or i could have just slapped it on to a DIP socket in 15 minutes ....

author: cwalex
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2013, 03:18:40 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on April 04, 2013, 07:47:29 pmOT: I have iritis in left eye, those soft hammer type intraocular pressure doohickies are really cool, beat the hell out of the other handheld ones that have to be pressed firmly on your eyeball while you look directly ahead (after they put numbing eye drop in). Some times it is over and done with nice and quick but if the operator is not very experienced it takes them ages and many pokes of your eye to get a reading. When I have a flare up my vision in left eye becomes really bad and I lose my depth perception which makes soldering tiny things really difficult, like soldering with one eye tied behind your back