Re: [sdiy] moving to SMD/SMT

[Roman]

the good thing about 1206 is that they can easily fit at least 2 traces between pads, while 0603 hardly takes only one.

Yeah, 1206 are disonaurs ;) Then what about MELF resistors. They are just like thru-hole 1/4W without leads. Man, those are ugly!

but seriously, 1206 spans over 4 SOIC leads, that's a lot of space wasted if you want to put e.g. feedback resistors between pin 1 and 2 of dual opamp. 0603 is just right here.

Roman

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Od: Senso <senso at dds.nl>
Do: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Data: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:16:12 +0200
Temat: Re: [sdiy] moving to SMD/SMT

>>More thank yous are in order! Thanks Crow, Roman, and Senso.
>>
>>Roman, I must say that it struck me as funny that you wrote, "...
>>decide up front on one size of components. I'd suggest 0805. They are
>>easily to handle and not so large and bulky as 1206."
>>
>>So, now we're calling some SMDs as large and bulky?!  ;-)
>>--
>>john
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>It's the way of things.....
>One day these will be known as "those 1206 dinosaurs" LOL
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>Senso
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