[sdiy] SMT FAQ?

[The Peasant]

I'd like to send a big thank you to Magnus and Sten for offering to help drag 
us unbelievers into the world of SMT. Working in electronics and technology has 
always forced me to keep up with new developments or risk becoming obsolete 
myself, so even though it may be painful and unpleasant at times I will learn 
this as well. I'm sure that the future rewards will be more than enough 
compensation for the effort.

I intend to retain a large stock of breadboard-capable parts, and combined with 
socket adapters as required I should still be able to breadboard my circuits 
just fine. (One of these days I guess I should start using computer circuit 
simulation as well :-) And if part size is kept within reason, I can probably 
continue to make my own pcbs in many cases. I'm sure that all these resourceful 
DIYers around here will create other interesting ways of working with this 
technology as well. 

Take care,
Doug
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Quoting Magnus Danielson <cfmd at bredband.net>:

> 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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> > 
> > 
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