jessenator
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best of luck
IC Sockets
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Feral Feline
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Machined sockets work for me, never had a problem with them.
On the other hand...
Leaf sockets are shitty flimsy pieces of garbage. If you have a problem with an IC it's most likely the fly-leaf shat the PCB-bed.
I know they're shit from MY experience, but my experience is not your experience so if you want to subject your builds to inferior parts,
"fill yer boots" as they say.
On the other hand...
Leaf sockets are shitty flimsy pieces of garbage. If you have a problem with an IC it's most likely the fly-leaf shat the PCB-bed.
I know they're shit from MY experience, but my experience is not your experience so if you want to subject your builds to inferior parts,
"fill yer boots" as they say.
Nostradoomus
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sock(et) it to me 465!
Ah fuck
Ah fuck
Fama
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I use this https://www.taydaelectronics.com/hardware-tools/hand-tools/u-type-plcc-extraction-tool.html because pulling IC's often does suck.I have however, when trying to pull a stubborn IC out of a socket, had the IC suddenly pop out, somehow flip around, and embed itself in my thumb to the point of drawing blood.This has happened on two separate occasions…
There's also https://www.taydaelectronics.com/plcc-extraction-tool-black-handle.html, not sure if that's better or not. The first one works fine IME, but you need to really get it in there, and if there are other components blocking it it can be annoying.
I don't mean to shame or anything, but how did that happen? Did it just fall off from the factory? Or did you desolder it or something? I put the socket in and gently bend the legs towards the middle with my nail, no issues with them snapping ever. It could be a case of bad batches I guess, like someone said. I think I buy the cheapest Tayda variety.Machined sockets work for me, never had a problem with them.
On the other hand...
Leaf sockets are shitty flimsy pieces of garbage. If you have a problem with an IC it's most likely the fly-leaf shat the PCB-bed.
I know they're shit from MY experience, but my experience is not your experience so if you want to subject your builds to inferior parts,
"fill yer boots" as they say.
Feral Feline
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Basically, yes, failed, fell off from the factory.
I had it laying around because I had already realised the flyleafs weren't working for me.
Then, one of this type of thread popped up and the proponents of flyleaf sockets made some good points so I said to myself
"Hey, I'll give these another try"...
Literally while just handling the thing, about to pop it into a PCB, nowhere close to getting it soldered, and a leg snapped off.
It's not like it was in my pocket with change and then went through the laundry or something — clean, out of the parts-box tray and the little bugger... how did I put it before? "...the leafs are a pathetic excuse for even oven-foil".
I have used one since then, in my Q-TUNE build, successfully. Used only because it came with the Q-Tune kit and I was out of machined sockets.
I treated it like it was a bad batch of volatile nitro-glycerin about to blow up in my face. Wish I'd had a machined socket on hand.
Before the Q-Tune, having that leg flake off simply confirmed what I'd previously found — flyleaf-sockets are not to be trusted. They're simply not robust enough. I like the idea behind the mechanism for the IC, which seems to mostly work okay, but the socket-legs are so delicate — not to be trusted.
Never had a problem with machined sockets failing, no ICs falling out, no pin-breakage and most definitely no problem with contact area of the IC-leg making an electrical connection.
Machine sockets simply work, can be trusted to work.
