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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: Daryan on September 29, 2006, 10:27:45 AM

Title: mod question...
Post by: Daryan on September 29, 2006, 10:27:45 AM

Does anyone have any experience removing smt parts and replacing them with leaded components?  If so, I would be interested in hearing how you went about doing so.  The mini-me I am working on has all SMT components, and I would like to replace the majority of the smt capacitors with blackgates/rubycon caps to get rid of some of the grunge I hear from the unit.  Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: mod question...
Post by: Busman Audio on October 05, 2006, 07:34:16 PM

Just get the leads nice and short. Give the pads some solder and the leads for the caps. Then solder them on and you will be fine.

Title: Re: mod question...
Post by: Chuck on October 05, 2006, 07:49:10 PM

There are some obvious and maybe not so obvious advantages for a manufacturers to use SM components. I've been reading about how surface mount bypass capacitors are making a huge improvement in 5v digital logic circuits, because the "leads" are so short. The leads are virtually non-existent.