> I've got to agree completely with Dave here. Having soldered more than > a couple of things together in technologies ranging from vacuum tube to > high pin count fine pitch chips over the last 23 years since my first soldering > iron, I find that about the easiest thing is a board with 1206 passives > and SOIC chips. I'll grant you that things like QFN are a pain, but > an SO16 isn't and 1206's are so much faster to work with than leaded > resistors and capacitors. In fact, I almost always use surface mount > parts when building up a quick prototype on some proto-board material.
But the SMT capacitors we are having here in retail stored don't have any numbers printed on them. Have you also encountered that problem? Cl<
