wesleyfurr
Veteran Member
I'm hoping someone can give me a few pointers... I have in my hands an XT-IDE Rev2 board, along with two of the Lo-Tech ISA Compactflash boards, which I want to assemble! Or at least try...
First question is in regards to buying the necessary parts. I'm in the USA, so the Farnell parts list on the Lo-Tech board isn't as easy and placing an order...at least not without paying a very hefty shipping price! And for the XT-IDE Rev2, I'm finding some of the Jameco parts discontinued, or seemingly cheaper at Mouser. Are all the little IC chips as generic as they seem to be? Stuff like the 74LS04, SN74F573N, etc? Part numbers seem to vary ever so slightly, such as the 74LS04 being listed as an SN74LS04... I just don't know enough about those types of parts...and I don't want to buy the wrong thing and have to re-order, or run into problems after I spend a pile of time soldering. I've also tried to find some equivalent parts at Mouser other than from the Jameco list on the XT-IDE Rev2...a bunch of those were minimum quantity of 10, which would just go to waste for me. At least I'm assuming I have found equivalent parts...mainly DIP sockets. I'm also planning to put the chips in sockets on the Lo-Tech board, as I don't trust my soldering enough yet to solder them direct.
I have created a spreadsheet of what parts to buy where, if anyone wants to have a look, I can send it to you...didn't seem to want to allow me to attach a .XLS file to this post.
And one other question...when it comes to soldering, flux, cleaning, etc, what do you guys recommend? I've done a fair number of repair type solder jobs, mainly replacing failed capacitors...but have never bothered to clean up the flux. Does that really need to be done with these boards when I am done? If yes, what do you recommend? And should the empty boards be cleaned prior to beginning?
Thanks!
Wesley
First question is in regards to buying the necessary parts. I'm in the USA, so the Farnell parts list on the Lo-Tech board isn't as easy and placing an order...at least not without paying a very hefty shipping price! And for the XT-IDE Rev2, I'm finding some of the Jameco parts discontinued, or seemingly cheaper at Mouser. Are all the little IC chips as generic as they seem to be? Stuff like the 74LS04, SN74F573N, etc? Part numbers seem to vary ever so slightly, such as the 74LS04 being listed as an SN74LS04... I just don't know enough about those types of parts...and I don't want to buy the wrong thing and have to re-order, or run into problems after I spend a pile of time soldering. I've also tried to find some equivalent parts at Mouser other than from the Jameco list on the XT-IDE Rev2...a bunch of those were minimum quantity of 10, which would just go to waste for me. At least I'm assuming I have found equivalent parts...mainly DIP sockets. I'm also planning to put the chips in sockets on the Lo-Tech board, as I don't trust my soldering enough yet to solder them direct.
I have created a spreadsheet of what parts to buy where, if anyone wants to have a look, I can send it to you...didn't seem to want to allow me to attach a .XLS file to this post.
And one other question...when it comes to soldering, flux, cleaning, etc, what do you guys recommend? I've done a fair number of repair type solder jobs, mainly replacing failed capacitors...but have never bothered to clean up the flux. Does that really need to be done with these boards when I am done? If yes, what do you recommend? And should the empty boards be cleaned prior to beginning?
Thanks!
Wesley