Re: Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-26 Thread Jonas Otter
On 2015-12-25 22:29, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 12/25/2015 01:10 PM, William Donzelli wrote: OK, I misunderstood you. No, I have never seen one of those that was not a turned pin type. TI also sold some wire-wrap sockets (gold-plated to their credit) with "forked" type contacts which were welded(

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 12/25/2015 01:10 PM, William Donzelli wrote: OK, I misunderstood you. No, I have never seen one of those that was not a turned pin type. TI also sold some wire-wrap sockets (gold-plated to their credit) with "forked" type contacts which were welded(?) to the wrap posts. They had the anno

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread William Donzelli
> No, I was referring to the wirewrap *boards* with individual press-fit > socket pins, usually on very thick FR4 stock. You know--*real* industrial > wire-wrap, not the cheap hobbyist stuff. OK, I misunderstood you. No, I have never seen one of those that was not a turned pin type. -- Will

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 12/25/2015 12:25 PM, tony duell wrote: These aren't individual pins, but complete DIL sockets. An example is shown in this E-bay listing : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20-pieces-New-16-Pin-Cambion-Wire-Wrap-DIP-Sockets-Gold-Pins-/262081127835 Oh, I know that the individual sockets didn't. He

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread William Donzelli
I likely do. If I find one, do you need it? I do not do wire wrap. They were not all that bad when they came out, but time has not been kind to them - almost all have corrosion issues, sort of like Nuvistor sockets. I have a memory of seeing a gold plated version, but I might be making that up. -

RE: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread tony duell
> >> Aren't in fact, all wirewrap (board+pin) board sockets machine-pin? > >> I don't recall seeing one that wasn't. Given the great track > >> record of wire-wrapped designs that says something, surely. > > > > No, some were not machined. > > Got any examples? I've never seen a press-fit wire-w

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 12/25/2015 11:41 AM, William Donzelli wrote: Aren't in fact, all wirewrap (board+pin) board sockets machine-pin? I don't recall seeing one that wasn't. Given the great track record of wire-wrapped designs that says something, surely. No, some were not machined. Got any examples? I've nev

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 12:06 PM 12/25/2015, Jonas Otter wrote: >I would use a turned pin type socket instead, e g an Augat socket. For decades I have used Augat sockets for mission-critical applications. I have never had a contact failure where they are used. Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA Osborne 1 / Kaypro

RE: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread tony duell
> > One recalls those execrable low-profile cheap sockets from TI in the > early 70s. Horrible stuff. Those were about the worst! > Aren't in fact, all wirewrap (board+pin) board sockets machine-pin? I > don't recall seeing one that wasn't. Given the great track record of > wire-wrapped desig

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread William Donzelli
> Aren't in fact, all wirewrap (board+pin) board sockets machine-pin? I don't > recall seeing one that wasn't. Given the great track record of wire-wrapped > designs that says something, surely. No, some were not machined. -- Will

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 12/25/2015 09:32 AM, tony duell wrote: My feeling is that for the sort of things most of us do here, a turned pin socket is the most reliable of all. Yes, soldering the IC directly may have a (slightly) lower risk of bad connections, but given that we do (or at least I do) component level rep

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread dwight
raightened pins. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of tony duell Sent: Friday, December 25, 2015 9:32 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: RE: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault > In my experience, the

RE: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread tony duell
> In my experience, the type of socket you used is quite unreliable and > will tend to develop bad contacts. There is a reason they are cheap... I > would use a turned pin type socket instead, e g an Augat socket. They > will not let you down. More expensive, but considering the work involved > in

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-25 Thread Jonas Otter
>> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- >> Van: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Namens Terry Stewart >> Verzonden: dinsdag 22 december 2015 21:50 >> Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >> Onderwerp: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault >> >>

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-22 Thread Adrian Graham
On 22/12/2015 20:50, "Terry Stewart" wrote: > Hi, > > I've written up my recent third Apple II repair, this time an Apple IIe. > http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2015-12-22-appleiIIe-no-video.htm > > One interesting aspect of this repair is that piggy-backing a logic chip > helped co

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-22 Thread Don North
Or it is a mechanical fault due to a package/die bond wire becoming an open circuit. This could happen to where the wire joins to either the package or the die pad, or a wire that was fused due to excess current. Hard to tell unless you decap the package. On 12/22/2015 1:32 PM, Alexandre Souz

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-22 Thread Alexandre Souza
Becaise they have diodes to gnd/vcc. And the common failure of a diode is a rupture of the barrier and so, it gets shorted. So the gate is shorted to ground or vcc Enviado do meu Tele-Movel Em 22/12/2015 19:29, "Chuck Guzis" escreveu: > On 12/22/2015 01:10 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote: > >> It work

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-22 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 12/22/2015 01:10 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote: It works if the gate is open. But if it is shorted to gnd/vcc, you're in trouble :) In my experience, this is the case with a lot of 4000-series CMOS. Don't exactly understand why. --Chuck

Re: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-22 Thread Terry Stewart
>It works if the gate is open. But if it is shorted to gnd/vcc, you're in >trouble :) Yea. In my case the chip was quite cool, so I figured it wasn't shorted and took the risk. On reflection checking vcc/gnd with a multimeter would be a more definitive way of checking for a short of that nature.

RE: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-22 Thread Alexandre Souza
It works if the gate is open. But if it is shorted to gnd/vcc, you're in trouble :) Enviado do meu Tele-Movel Em 22/12/2015 19:09, "Rik Bos" escreveu: > > > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > > Van: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens Terry Stewart > > Verzonden: dinsdag 22 de

RE: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault

2015-12-22 Thread Rik Bos
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens Terry Stewart > Verzonden: dinsdag 22 december 2015 21:50 > Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Onderwerp: Piggybacking 74LS logic chips to confirm a suspected fault > > Hi, > > I'