[resolved] looking for a component for this footprint

[lamoule74]

Hello everyone, and happy new year 2026 


I’m trying to identify a PCB footprint (attached) and I’m a bit stuck...

The footprint is SMD, with 10 pads arranged as 2×5, on a ~2.54 mm pitch plus four mechanical pads in the corners...
casing ~9 mm width.

Clearly designed for surface-mount, not THT
Pads are relatively wide and symmetric
There is a clearance / cutout in the copper area between the two rows

I only want to identify a compatible SMD component (even a dummy one) for soldering practice.

Does this footprint ring a bell?
Possibly an old SMD reed relay, an uncommon DIP-style SMD package, or something else entirely.


Thanks in advance.

[SaakNeMah]

Looks like a standard SMD relay package (e.g. Panasonic TQ series), the two contacts wired in series.
There are also RF / shielded versions like G6K-RF series from Omron, those might have the shields on the corner pins.

[lamoule74]

Yes, OK, thank you for pointing me in the right direction. 
It indeed seems closer, in terms of package, to Panasonic’s “RA” series.

Nevertheless, it remains too expensive for soldering practice with beginners. 

I will therefore close the topic.
Best regards,

[PlainName]

If it's just soldering practice you can use any chip with that footprint, not just the one that's intended to go there. Unless you want it to work afterwards. But if you can't afford to put the right chip on there it's never going to work anyway, so you might as well stick some random thing on. Then, if you ever do get the right chip, you can practice desoldering technique too