On Feb 15, 8:53 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
Steven Hirsch wrote:
James Littlejohn wrote:
This thing may not even have one more round of insertion left before
pins
start breaking off, so I'm looking for advice on solving the
intermittant
problem and mounting it permanently in... something. What have folks
done
with these things to get around contact problems? Is there life
after broken
pins?
I can almost imagine a circuit board with a pair of 20-pin headers
and 40
holes offset a bit so I can solder the ZipChip on permanently.
I had foreseen this on my Zip chips and on Accelerators for the GS. I
desoldered the CPU socket and installed a ZIF socket on both my IIe
and IIgs motherboards.
Excellent plan! I'll order up a couple of 40-pin low-profile ZIF
sockets forthwith.
Quick update and proviso: A low-profile socket isn't going to work with a
ZipChip! The package extends too far on the ends and will interfere with the
actuating lever :-(. I'm going to have to go for the conventional ZIF socket
with side-mounted lever. That's going to neatly prevent anything from sitting
in slot 3 and perhaps slot 2 as well.
I purchased mine from Reactive Micro, Henry alters them to work with
the larger chip package.