Suface Mount Prototyping

On a breadboard,glue it upside down, and solder with wirewrap wire.

On 17 Jul 2006 15:00:15 -0700, "Drake" Gave us:

The method is called "dead bug" You superglue it to the PCB upside down in a desired area, and then use very fine wire to hook up the pins to your other circuit elements.

Remember to pay close attention to pin locations as things get confusing when "mirrored" as happens with upside down chips.

Also, try to keep you point to point leads short. Fine, high end tweezers, a *good* iron, and an inspection microscope or desk lamp with magnifier aid things along.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:34:32 +0200, Sjouke Burry Gave us:

One must go much finer than wire wrap wire these days. 30 gauge or even smaller. Teflon coated "jumper wire" (or called "hook up wire") or even fine gauge mag wire will work.

--Someone was selling a neat little pre-tinned PC board for attaching surface mount stuff at the Makers Faire; will see if I can dig out the one they were giving away and get you a name..

-- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : What if the whole world Hacking the Trailing Edge! : farted at once?

I'm new to this SMT stuff, too. Here's a good NASA best practices pdf I just ran across. I've found it as a website, too, but I suggest dwnld the pdf file so you can blow the sucker up to view.

workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sections/files/303.pdf

nb

Thanks everyone for the repsonses.

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