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Argus25 · 28th Nov 2017, 2:49 pm

By the look of this IC it comes in an 8 or 5 lead configuration.

The thing I do with these small IC's with fine pitch pins is to buy an adapter that converts them to DIL, then you can put it on your veroboard and with a socket to, without problems. These pre-made adapters are on ebay. To solder fine pitch surface mount IC's like this to their pads can be done with an ordinary sized iron, just flood solder all the pins and use solder wick on it after that which clears the solder between the pins but leaves enough for a good connection from the pin to the pcb pad.

I think one of these would work if it was a sot23-5 IC:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Surface-m...qJK2_ZonJ756mw

Also found this for a DFN12, but it would work for an 8 pin one I think:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Surface-m...zWGhyBeRZN4SNQ

28th Nov 2017, 2:49 pm	#4
Argus25 No Longer a Member Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. Posts: 2,679	Re: SMDs and stripboard By the look of this IC it comes in an 8 or 5 lead configuration. The thing I do with these small IC's with fine pitch pins is to buy an adapter that converts them to DIL, then you can put it on your veroboard and with a socket to, without problems. These pre-made adapters are on ebay. To solder fine pitch surface mount IC's like this to their pads can be done with an ordinary sized iron, just flood solder all the pins and use solder wick on it after that which clears the solder between the pins but leaves enough for a good connection from the pin to the pcb pad. I think one of these would work if it was a sot23-5 IC: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Surface-m...qJK2_ZonJ756mw Also found this for a DFN12, but it would work for an 8 pin one I think: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Surface-m...zWGhyBeRZN4SNQ Last edited by Argus25; 28th Nov 2017 at 3:00 pm.