[sdiy] SMT FAQ?

[Sten Björnebro]

On Sun, 29 May 2005 17:23:46 -0700
James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:

Hi people.

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

01005 has  0.4 length mm	0.2 whith mm	0.1 hight mm	       and just	30micro gramm

The code was reperesented length and with in 1/100" (2,54mm) 
But now days mm is more normal so indistry is going metric.
 
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> 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?

SMD not SMT Surface mounted technology

SMD stand for Surface Mount Devices
www.fpga4fun.com/external/SMD/smdman.pdf 

http://www.fpga4fun.com/SMD.html

Happy soldering.
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