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| I can't stand seeing or using non-SMD parts. Am I sick? |
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| bjdhjy888:
:'( When I just started to learn electronics, I loved using through hole parts, like 555 timer, resistors, and hated SMD parts, as the former is so easy to be used on a breadboard. As soon as I learned Altium, I felt I never wanted to used ANY through hole parts. They are too big, ugly and not cool when it comes to aesthetics. I hardly use non-SMD parts. My PCB is soldered with footprints of 0805, LQFP, SOT223, QFN, etc. But I see lots of advanced engineers who do use through hole parts, which kinda ran the bell for me. Am I being wrong or too obsessed with SMD/SMT? |
| Sal Ammoniac:
I find it much easier, faster, and less tedious to assemble a board with all SMD parts. I don't miss thorough-hole at all. |
| Bud:
TH has an warm nostalgic value to me. But i also do only SMD now. |
| Red Squirrel:
I try to get everything I can as through hole and 2.54 pitch so that it fits on breadboard and protoboard. I'm still new and experimenting so no high volume stuff. Once I get to a point where I want to do more volume then I would convert stuff over to using SMD and just design and get boards manufactured. I've tried to solder SMD without having a PCB and it's just so tedious, not worth the hassle. I do have some oddball parts I want to play with that only came in SMD but I was unable to solder them at all, they are just too small even to just add leads to, too hard to make them not move around etc while trying to solder. So at some point I'll get some break out boards made. SMD is not too hard when you have a proper board with solder mask etc but trying to experiment and prototype them is tedious. |
| Mr.B:
--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on September 25, 2019, 01:20:22 am ---I find it much easier, faster, and less tedious to assemble a board with all SMD parts. I don't miss thorough-hole at all. --- End quote --- ^ This |
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