This is easy. Look in the manual! It says right there how many parts. And you know how many leads
(1 solder per lead). Assume about 22 vias/board and you're home free.
Paul S.
----- Original Message -----
From: <sucrosemusic@...>
To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: [motm] Useless Statistics
> I was reading the previous posts about soldering issues, and noted in
> particular "after you do 1000 of these..." or something to that
> effect.
>
> Are there any stats written up for the various modules, specifically
> the numbers of certain parts (resisitors, caps, transistors, etc),
> but more importantly, the number of overall solder joints?
>
> I forsee an incredibly useless PHP or javascript-based web-app that
> lets you plug in your entire setup ala the MOTM order page, but
> instead of giving you a price at the bottom, it shows you the total
> number of resistors, caps, diodes, transistors, ICs, pots and jacks
> that you've used, and most importantly, the total number of solder
> joints you've completed.
>
> I, for one, like bragging to my friends about the number of resistors
> in my MOTM-320, but then again, I am also crazy.
>
> (Also, given these statstics, I could ∗probably∗ apply my weak PHP-
> scripting skills and write up a page to do all this, though it might
> be more suited for javascript, which I don't know)
>
> Sorry for the vaguely-on-topic-but-pointless bandwidth.
>
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>