On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 09:40 AM, Dennis Tillman W7pF wrote:
Only one company is associates with bad IC sockets - that is Texas Instruments
Not all TI sockets were bad even if of course some could fail just like any other brands.
The one that stands out of the crowd is called C-95. In my opinion there is not a question
if it would fail but when. They were not only in TM500's but all over the place at that time.
Typically faults are intermittent and cleaning and reseating may help for some time but it
will eventually come back. If you see those in your instrument count on problems.
They are easily identified by the very unique profile on the short end.
Check on TekWiki here:
My three pictures at the bottom show it while the larger picture shows what I would not generally consider bad.
/H?kan
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