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Any tips on how to bread board several surface mount ICs, standard
resitors, caps, etc and a (DIP) Basic Stamp?

Chris

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At 10:34 PM 6/29/02 -0400, Christopher C Dundorf wrote:
>Any tips on how to bread board several surface mount ICs, standard
>resitors, caps, etc and a (DIP) Basic Stamp?

You can use a standard breadboard if you mount your SMT parts to little
carrier boards that bring the pins out to a standard 0.1" spacing. You can
get some from Digi-Key (they are called "Surf Boards") or make up your own
or you can purchase mine [noparse];)[/noparse]

I offer some little adapter PCBs for SO-8, SO-16, SO-28 for cheap.

The adapters come as a small board containing several adapters. You have
to cut them apart with tin snips, solder on the SMT chip and add pins (I
use cut-off resistor leads). The boards are double sided with plated thru
holes and solder mask.

The SO-8 adapters take narrow (0.15") and wide (0.20") chips up to 8 pins.
The SO-16 adapters take narrow body (0.15") chips up to 16 pins.
The SO-28 adapters take wide body (0.3") chips up to 28 pins.

5 - SO-8 adapters $1.00 US
3 - SO-8, 3 - SO-16 $2.00 US
1 - SO-8, 2 - SO-28 $2.00 US

Add $1.00 US for shipping for up to 5 of the above cards.

Important note about the SO-8 adapters: the SMT part is mounted on the
UNDERSIDE of the adapter. There just isn't enough room to mount a 0.200"
wide SO-8 with gull wing leads between 0.3" DIP spaced leads.

Have a look at <http://www.trinity-electronics.com/customproducts.htm> and
contact me via PRIVATE email if you can use any of these.

dwayne

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