Looking ahead, there are some ICs of interest ONLY available in surface mount. But, not the teeny-tiny, cellphone stuff. Rather, your "standard" SO-8 / SO-16 (0.050 lead pitch) sort of parts. These are for the 500 Series. Maybe I should offer "semi-kits" of soldered pcb, but no wires/pots/etc soldered. You would still have to do this as in current kits. What is your "comfort zone" is handling/soldering these parts? Not talking ALL parts on the board, maybe 2 ICs out of 8. Or....what if I could go "all DIP" but the price of the kit was $30 more? Worth $30 to have all DIP? Discuss. Paul S.
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Opinions on surface mounting
2002-05-08 by Paul Schreiber