This Week on the Breadboard: The EHX Ripped Speaker

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It's one transistor footprint to rule them all (Lord of the Footprints). The worst case is a bit of twister with some weird pin-outs on TH. Before, I'd have to have different footprints for EBC, CBE, DGS, DSG.. and even those would cause confusion at times. Now, it's just one with different labels for JFET vs BJT.

It covers SMD and TH and I think it's pretty clear which pad is what. I default to SMD transistors where I can. They're cheaper, and there are a few SMD-only options out there which are interesting.

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It's a better option when it comes to DSG to alternative DGS transistor pinout, less chance of pins hitting each other.
The 2n2222 has different pinout depending on the supplier.
I see the advantage when doing Eyelet board builds!