[Elecraft] OT - SMT breadboarding

[Don Wilhelm]

  Brian,

Have you investigated "Manhatten construction"  That is adaptable to SMT 
parts.  Yes, the IC is usually mounted "dead-bug" fashion.  If you bend 
the leads in or out so that alternate leads are bent in and the otheer 
out, you have double the "error distance" when soldering.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 1/6/2011 1:32 PM, Brian Alsop wrote:
> Just how does one breadboard something with IC SMT parts having 0.025"
> (or other similarly small) lead spacing?  I have a few projects here
> that require this.
>
> I was just thinking of gluing the chip dead bug fashion to the
> breadboard and soldering tiny wires to the leads.
>
> The problem is that the IC's for any given project tend to have
> differing numbers of pins and pin spacings.  No one size "adapter" would
> most likely be useful.
>
> There must be a better way.
>
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
>