> > > I just noticed that Digikey is now carrying 01005 sized parts. > Looks like they are about the size of a flake of black pepper. > > How small a part can you realistically place with tweezers, > soldering iron and/or toaster oven?
I regularly do 0603 with tweezers/magnifying glass/Metcal iron with fine tip. I once had a board with 0402 parts. ISTR doing a little manual rework on it, although not much involving those small parts thankfully. > Something else I don't understand in the Digikey > description is that they say "01005 (EIA) 402". > What does the "EIA 402" mean? The EIA maintains a parallel nomenclature defining the size of SMT passive parts. I belive it may be metric, and may be more common in Europe (although I could be wrong). In America, we use the more informal nomenclature 1206, 0805, 0603, etc. which is common in the industry, but doesn't have a standards body defintion behind it (as far as I know). Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
