Recently I bought a Hakko 936 soldering station and several T-1 fine conical bits. My first SMD soldering is a 28 pin SOIC chip to a PDIP adapter PCB so that I can experiment with a CS8427 in a breadboard. The CS8427 is a digital sound s/pdif AES3 transceiver, which I'm using as a general purpose filter for optical and coaxial digital sound. The 28 pin SOIC is a comfortable size for me to start. I soldered it well, no bridges, using an Optivisor and a T-1 bit. The soldering isn't a work of art but is fully functional. I look forward to building the njqrp.org DDS-60 kit that I've had pending, though the AD9851's legs are a lot smaller and closer set than those of the CS8427.
Thankyou Tom for posting the bit numbers with their uses. Ian, G4ICV, AB2GR, K2 #4962 -- _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
