I am led to believe that some sockets are better than others, so if you are inclined to use sockets to make repairing & troubleshooting easier down the road, or for swapping ROMs or something, then at least get good quality sockets. I'm pretty sure that the kind with the "round" holes and posts, as opposed to those Radio Shack "flat clip / flat leads" type are superior in design. In a rare move, the MOTM-110 uses a socket for the central chip, and that is the type that Paul uses. (While on that subject.... Paul, I noticed that a couple of capacitors are different on the MOTM-110 that I just built as compared to the one I built a year ago [anal of me to notice, yeah]. I think there are two 220pf caps as opposed to another odd value that I can't remember off-hand. Is that anything that I should go back and mod to the old one, or was this a very minor design change...? Thanks!)
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RE: [motm] Sockets vs. soldering ICs directly to PCB?
2001-03-09 by Tkacs, Ken