48 Pin TSOP Test Clips

There is an awesome idea here

Basically it involves cutting wire wrap wire at a sharp angle, so that you have a contact on one side and insulation the other side, and then push it between pins. Here's a quote from that link:

"the procedure is simple take a short length if unstripped wire wrap, and cut it at a sharp angle , you now have a needle sharp wire that is insulated on one side. shove it between some pins , making sure the insulation is facing one of the pins (it should beable to hold itself in). repeat procedure for all of the pins you intend to connect to

you can hotglue the wires together to make it easier to reinsert them later, just be careful not to dislodge them in the process. "

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Did you already tried you search at: 3M, Pomona or Emulation Technology, Inc. ?

Smallest clips are for SIOC at 50mil pitch. TSOP is smaller pitch and wider package

You can get tiny grabber hooks and connect to each pin.

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:12:26 GMT, "pipedown" wrote: [de-topped]

These guys

have press-on test clips that include TSOP-48. I haven't tried them -- I usually rely on probing a few accessible test points, assuming I remember to have them put on the board.

If the OP does give these a try, I'd be interested to hear how well they worked. Might come in handy, someday.

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Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA