The SO-8 part is rotated 90 degrees. That way, the SO pins don't interfere with the DIP pins. Putting it on the underside of the adapter PCB resulted in the shortest traces. dwayne At 07:43 PM 2/24/02 -0500, Sean H. Breheny wrote: >Dear Dwayne, > >Just a quick question: maybe I'm not thinking straight but how does >mounting the SO-8 part on the underside of the adapter solve this problem? >The leads are present on the underside, too, aren't they? > >Sean > > >At 04:21 PM 2/24/02 -0700, you wrote: >>Important note about the SO-8 adapters: the SMT part is mounted on the >>UNDERSIDE of the adapter. There just isn't enough room to mount a 0.200" >>wide SO-8 with gull wing leads between 0.3" DIP spaced leads. Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 18 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2002) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu