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May 21, 2007
Socketed IC's
Our company likes to install socketed IC's to make testing and repairs easier. Unfortunately, we have trouble with IC's coming loose from the sockets in finished products. There seem to be thousands of different DIP socket options available.
Can you recommend a "good, better, best" list of socket features?
J.W.
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Ask the Experts Comments
May 21, 2007
Insertion and retention force should be specified. You should also control the spring material to make sure that stress relaxation is minimized or eliminated for your use environment.
Dr. Craig D. Hillman, CEO & Managing Partner
DfR Solutions
chillman@dfrsolutions.com
 Dr. Hillman's specialties include best practices in Design for Reliability, strategies for transitioning to Pb-free, supplier qualification (commodity and engineered products), passive component technology and printed board failure mechanisms. Dr. Hillman has over 30 publications and has presented on a wide variety of reliability issues to over 150 companies and organizations.
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