Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

[Geoff Swan <shinobi.jack@xxxxxxxxx>]

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...


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