>What about the snap-off pins that you press into the hole by hand andThis is - in priciple - the same thing as using a wire and solder it
>then snap off and solder?
on both ends. The only difference is that those pins remain better in
the holes and hence soldering is slightly easier. The same
disadvantages to using a simple wire apply here namely:
- limitts you to double sided layouts
- you can't put vias below SMD parts.
- very time consuming to solder with PCB's having > 100 pieces of
them.
Markus