[sdiy] chip socket style opinions...

[Ken Stone]

I use these quite often. They are basically the second best you can buy. The
best you will need to ask Harry about - a specific brand of leaf type.

Ken

>My local surplus supplier has some great milled, gold plated chip sockets
>cheap. They are the kind with the round hole for the chip legs.
> 
>My question is, what are people's opinions on these versus the traditional
>leaf type contacts? Most of the chips are flat sided pins so it would seem
>the leaf style provide more surface contact. OTOH, I have had replace many
>of these type sockets over the years as they loose their spring and then
>they definitely don't have any contact.  I've never had to replace one of
>the milled, round holed sockets yet so they definitely seem to work.  What
>does everyone else think? Later!
> 
>James R. Coplin
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