.600 to .300 adapter header?

Scucci

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Working on a little personal project...

Looking for something like this:
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BUT instead of terminating in sockets, I'm needing something that ends with just header pins for soldering a PCB on top of it. I know I could just get header pins and shove the PCB on it using those, but I'm try'ng to keep this as short as possible and with as few pieces as possible. I'm trying to find them with 24 pins, if they even make them.

Any one know if there's anything out there like that?
 
I would just design a small board. Then you get exactly what you want.

Alternatively there is a lot of that kind of stuff on ebay. Might want to check there.
 
I would just design a small board. Then you get exactly what you want.

Alternatively there is a lot of that kind of stuff on ebay. Might want to check there.

Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm wanting to make a single sided PCB for the Row6 and Row5 chips on the 4in1 multi-pac. But to keep it single sided (so I can make it at home), and jumper wire free (minus the flying wires to the main board), I need to put the 24 pins from the board in the middle of the 020's and 128's... unless I'm overlooking something obvious (try'ng to keep the board small).
 
Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm wanting to make a single sided PCB for the Row6 and Row5 chips on the 4in1 multi-pac. But to keep it single sided (so I can make it at home), and jumper wire free (minus the flying wires to the main board), I need to put the 24 pins from the board in the middle of the 020's and 128's... unless I'm overlooking something obvious (try'ng to keep the board small).

Considering what that adapter would cost, it's a losing proposition...

Just offset the header from the sockets by .1" and you don't need to go from .6" down to .3".

Of course the real problem is that any header you put it wll want to be soldered on the top side of the board, and any sockets you put in will want to be on soldered on the bottom side of the board, unless you get really tall headers, and mount all the chips upsidedown... (or solder the headers on both the top and bottom sides)
 
Considering what that adapter would cost, it's a losing proposition...

Just offset the header from the sockets by .1" and you don't need to go from .6" down to .3".

Of course the real problem is that any header you put it wll want to be soldered on the top side of the board, and any sockets you put in will want to be on soldered on the bottom side of the board, unless you get really tall headers, and mount all the chips upsidedown... (or solder the headers on both the top and bottom sides)

Mark... I didn't even think about offsetting the damn things. I'd have to adjust the size of the pads for the header so they're not touching the pads for the chip... but no biggie there.

I can't believe I didn't think of that... when I do anything I try to make everything symmetrical (OCD I guess), so that never even crossed my mind.

Thank you. /thread
 
Mark... I didn't even think about offsetting the damn things. I'd have to adjust the size of the pads for the header so they're not touching the pads for the chip... but no biggie there.

I can't believe I didn't think of that... when I do anything I try to make everything symmetrical (OCD I guess), so that never even crossed my mind.

Thank you. /thread

Just make sure you offset it enough so that the header tips poking through the PCB don't interfere with the socket on top... otherwise Dorkert will call you out and say your work is shitty, just because the socket isn't flush.
 
Just make sure you offset it enough so that the header tips poking through the PCB don't interfere with the socket on top...

Yeah, I just moved them over an extra .1 just to be safe.

Anywho, doing that offset thing made the boards smaller than I thought they would be. Granted, a little bigger than the header thing... but since it'll save me about $10 or so for the board, I can't complain about that, at all.

Thanks for the tip.

The extra copper around the board doesn't looking pretty, but since I'm having to use my own etchant (assuming I can still find it in my house!), I don't care how it looks if it'll save me a couple of ounces of the stuff.
 

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