[sdiy] SMT FAQ?

[Magnus Danielson]

From: James Patchell <patchell at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] SMT FAQ?
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 17:23:46 -0700
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050529172252.0264d600 at pop.west.cox.net>

Dear James,

> I always thought those were just the dimensions... 0804 would be 8mm x 
> 4mm... 01005 would be 1mm x 0.5mm....am I wrong?

Here's the page Sten refered to, it helps you out a bit on sizes:

http://www.koaproducts.com/english/catalogue/012-013-RK73B.htm

0805 (and _not_ 0804) is 2,0 x 1,25 mm and weights a wooping 4,54 mg.
The 01005 is 400 x 200 um and weigths in at 30 ug.

I don't know if there is a SMD FAQ, but I know that Sten has the intention to
make a site giving all kinds of usefull information, so I'll be on his back to
get something started then.

Let's see what can be done to my lab to make it more SMD-friendly.

I'm not a master of SMD myself, but I've fooled around with them and can
solder them if only slowly due to my lack of experience. Let me be the Q-guy
and note the answers from the A-guy (Sten).

Cheers,
Magnus - who actually has some 0603 and 0402 resistor sets at home

> At 06:41 PM 5/29/2005 -0500, Woody Wall wrote:
> >Being a complete novice at SMT, I did a little googling to answer my
> >questions about the meaning of things like 0804, 01005, and so forth.
> >I didn't come up with anything really useful. Does anyone have a
> >pointer to a good FAQ about SMT?
> >
> >Woody
> 
>          -Jim
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