Em 4/3/2010 13:40, Marechiare escreveu: >> Cinching is like NASA practice or something. ;-) >> = > Can't they just afford double sided boards? :-) > > > = >> Back in the early days of electronics, pre-PCBs even, >> it used to be felt that solder joints should NEVER be >> used to support the (then rather heavy) component, >> but obviously that rule of thumb is no longer followed >> (SMT parts, for example, seldom have anything but >> the solder joints supporting them). >> = > A bit irrelevant considerations. We are talking NOT about supporting > weight, we are talking about soldered surfaces being parallel, not > perpendicular. SMTs do have such pads parallel to PCB's copper > surface. > = I don't understand your fixation to parallelism between surfaces to be soldered! Isaac __________________________________________________ Fa=E7a liga=E7=F5es para outros computadores com o novo Yahoo! Messenger = http://br.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/ = -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist