Hi all,

Are home-made SMT PCBs feasible and recommended? Experience wise i have managed to make a few simple circuits on through hole PCB. Also, are common surface mount components (resistor/caps/555 timer/common ICs) easily available at Jalan Pasar or anywhere around KL? How much would they differ from the normal components?

This post has been edited by jubz: Aug 14 2009, 11:11 PM

Thanks for the response.

Am doing some schoolwork, would be interesting if we (me & my group mate) actually manage to make one. Plus we get to learn something additional. For our previous DIY PCBs, we used 0.015". We started with 0.010" but soon learnt that etching the board properly got difficult. Alignment problems were be reduced by concentrating most tracks on one side and using the other side for major tracks (ground,power,etc).

I was thinking if we used SMDs, the area occupied by components reduces and therefore we might be able to go single sided. Do correct me if i'm wrong..

Does anyone know what kinda chip is / equivalents for MAXIM C78091? Tried googling but I can't seem to find the datasheet for it.

Man, Farnell .......

I ordered my stuff nearly 10 days ago and it's still not here ... supposed to be 3-5 days according to their website. Gave them a call yesterday and they said it's still being processed =_=;;

Thanks for the advise.

Most of the components i ordered are from SG, a few from UK. And yes, been waiting for around 10 working days. (Mon-Fri + 2 Monday holidays)

I did check my status regularly and it's been tagged as "Received" ... However when i called them yesterday (and earlier today), the operator said that they have no record of my order confirmation. Forwarded the order confirmation back to them; gonna call them again later.

Hurrrrrrrrr finally solved the problem.

Turns out it's their side and they gave me an invalid reference number. The best part ? Correct number is the next one. My order was never processed until i called them up again yesterday.

I had to cancel a few components as they will only arrive the day after my presentation =.=. Had to swap a RM5 IC for a RM20 one for the same reason too. ;_;