[Ronja] Ronja Digest, Vol 58, Issue 13

[twibright at hispeed.ch]

---- eldis <eldis111 at seznam.cz> schrieb:
> twibright at hispeed.ch napsal(a):
> > ---- eldis <eldis111 at seznam.cz> schrieb:
> >   
> >> ML6652 might look like good choice, but I wouldn't recommend it.
> >> There have been reports of malfunctions and bugs in this chip. In my 
> >> opinion this is because of very noisy enviroment.
> >> As you know, fiber optics (ML6652 standart usage) means,
> >> that manufacturer is not taking into consideration that much noise on 
> >> RX. When some bad packets arrive,
> >> ML6652 can freeze (and will, on ocasions).
> >>     
> >
> > Lol, this is really ridiculous. Welcome to the 21st century :) Has a
> >   
> 
> Yeah, we all live in 21st century, and use standart SMD instead of that 
> old TH..

Standard SMD is OK for hand soldering as long as it's not too fine pitch or BGA.
It's actually less fuss than the TMD, according to my experience. SMD fortunately
doesn't mean the chip is buggy :)

CL<