Ignoring the response(s) from timecop, I don't believe the suggestion to try sot-23 was intended to be either elitist or unhelpful. *if* the option to use a different footprint is available then in many cases there is a great deal of advantage to using the sot-23 layout. If the work is being done by someone familiar with the pointy end of a soldering iron then it is as Mark points out potentially faster and easier to populate. I concede that in Windell's scenario that through hole components are much better for beginners rendering the suggestion moot, likewise if the part is not available or usable due to some other constraint.
>I hate it when you ask for help with one thing, and people suggest you do >something else. Without a lot of background information as to why a job *has* to be done a particular way there is sometimes value in trying a different approach. Although because it doesn't answer the original question the suggestion is not always helpful... oh well... _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
