jstark
Well-known member
So I'm designing a project, and a couple components are available only in surface-mount versions--namely, a SOIC-28 chip and a compact-flash header. I've never worked with surface-mount before--is there any way I can solder these components? I bought a DIP "socket" for the SOIC-28 from Mouser, thinking that it would somehow "lock" the SOIC-28 into place, but it really only has pads for soldering. So no matter what I do, this thing has to get soldered. The CF header gives me a headache just looking at it--the pins are packed about twice as tightly as the SOIC-28. Any ideas? Thanks guys,