[sdiy] Dumb surface mount question

[James Patchell]

For hobby stuff, sure, mix and match....

For production stuff, it is a different story....

The rule of thumb I remember someone telling me is that each thru hole 
component costs $1.00 to put on a PC board (this is mostly the labor needed 
to do this operation).  Surface mount components are very inexpensive to 
put onto a board in a production environment.

For hobby stuff, I still prefer thru hole.  I realize that this is a 
preference that is going to be short lived (i.e. forced to capitulate to 
the surface mount side of the force)....but for me, putting thru hole 
components on a board is still cheaper (in the amount of time spent) than 
surface mount.


At 05:46 PM 12/6/2003 +0100, jbv wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>When using surface mount logic ICs, does every cap
>(especially decoupling cap associated to each IC) and
>every resistor have to be surface mount too, or is it
>possible to use traditional caps & res. ?
>
>Thanks,
>JB

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