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puzzlingcaptcha | 3 months ago

01005? Oh no no no. I can barely do 0402s by hand and those are _2.5x_ larger.

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joemi|3 months ago

Wouldn't 0402 be 4x larger (if comparing lengths) or 16x larger (if comparing areas), not 2.5x?

Edit: Nevermind, I was wrong. I see now that the sizes don't actually directly correspond to the number codes! 01005 is 0.4mm x 0.2mm and 0402 is 1mm x 0.5mm. That's annoyingly confusing, IMO.

Neywiny|3 months ago

Metric mm vs imperial thou. Confusing but at least explainable

sho_hn|3 months ago

With one of those mini-hotplates for reflow soldering and a LCD microscope it's still fairly doable.

uticus|3 months ago

Step 1: build a robotic arm with larger components...

numpad0|3 months ago

infuriating fact: 0402 metric = 01005 imperial, 0402 imperial = 1005 metric. looks like this is the only semi-duplicate in common use.

rts_cts|3 months ago

And that's how I ended up with half a reel of 01005 resistors...

stavros|3 months ago

Wait wait wait what? 01005 isn't metric? They switched to imperial for just that size? What?