Hmmm....something just occurred to me. We are talking about 0603 in Inch not metric right ?
I've mistake the mistake once not watching it and ordered 0404 in metric. Dust!
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...the 0603s arrived...OMG...
Good that i ordered 100pcs per value....you can inhale them accidentally..
With my glasses: Mission impossible.
Hopefully the magnifiers help(?) - they arrive in the next days...
Hmmm....something just occurred to me. We are talking about 0603 in Inch not metric right ?
I've mistake the mistake once not watching it and ordered 0404 in metric. Dust!
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WTF ?? I never imagined that there both units are possible!
In Eagle I used the R-EU_R0603 (R-EU_) Package.
Perhaps I ordered false too..
I'll check this tommorow (Too late now)
Hell...why does the industry use both units ????
The international standard is "metric"!
Forgot to mention you might need some tweezers
I have a 3x magnifier with a small 8x window and sometimes I wish I had something around 14-20x.
I see that Frank is from Germany and in Europe when we refer to 0603 cases, we *usually* mean 1608 metric (1.6x0.8mm).
The metric 0603 is modern phone size grains of dust, no use trying anything under 0402 imperial (1.0x0.5mm!!) with human hands, imo. 0805 are the best if you have enough space.
I hate that some of the sizing codes are the same for both imperial and metric, and that sometimes causes a lot of confusion.
If you order through Farnell for example, their case reference looks like this: 0603 (1608 metric) and is equal to R-EU_R0603 in Eagle.
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Here you can see most parts in 0402 imperial.
I forgot to order the correct resistors so the two up top (2200) are 0603 placed on 0402 pads
That white thing is a standard grain of rice.
Nicht so leicht aufgeben! - Don't give up!
Put Trio Live '82 "Kummer" on the Stereo, get a glass of wine, use the magnifiers and a very good set of electronic tweezers.
Yeah, I only use the 'US' aka imperial 0603 size for decoupling capacitors. Everything else is 0805 to keep things 'Tierfreundlich".