Keith, you are SO right! I stumbled across Proto Advantage and they had that very carrier, saving me from probably botching at least one chip, probably more as I can hardly see the darned things, let alone tack wires onto the bottom pads. The package is a DFN, like a QFN but just two rows of 6...
A good number of SMD chips are supported for breadboarding with 'carrier' boards that have old-school DIP pins. But devices such as the attached don't seem to be similarly blessed. Anyone have ideas on how to make quick connection to these without creating, and waiting for, a dedicated PCB...
Thanks very much, guys. I'm going to give this a try keeping pressures low. One more question, and again pardon my ignorance in this area. Is the oil used in hydraulic systems an important consideration when it's a rather bonehead, low pressure application? Because of the very slow action I'm...
Thanks, Ted,
That's kinda what I figured. My main worry is how the construction might differ that would make using a pneumatic cylinder in a hydraulic application a bad idea because of what these cylinders are like inside. My pressure would be under 100 psi, but would hydraulic fluid be bad...
What is the fundamental difference between the construction of pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders? I sense that pneumatic systems respond quickly and hydraulic ones are capable of much greater thrust over a generally-longer actuating time. But pneumatic cylinders are very inexpensive and...
