8-Pin IC socket not fitting in Breadboard - Help

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Fei

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• Apr 1, 2005

• #1

I want to put an IC socet on the breadboard to put a 555 timer on it. I bought these from Radio Shack

https://www.radioshack.com/product....011_002_002_000&product_id=276-1995&hp=search

and the thing won't fit...i.e. it is very loose...Did I buy the wrong one? I instered the IC alone without the socket and it fits perfectly.

 

williB

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• Apr 1, 2005

• #2

yeah that socket is a cheapie , and is supposed to be soldered to a circuit board..
just put the 555 on the breadboard thats what its for..

 

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Fei

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• Apr 1, 2005

• #3

do you know of a socket which can be fitted into a breadboard?

 

williB

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• Apr 1, 2005

• #4

Why ? just insert it in the breadboard..

 

theinfamousbob

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• Apr 1, 2005

• #5

Yea, the second I thought of the socket I thought of the cheap kind with the REALLY skinny pins designed to do nothing more than to break and frustrate you. Breadboards don't need sockets. They are sockets. Large, interconnecting sockets.

 

evandude

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• Apr 2, 2005

• #6

theinfamousbob said:

Breadboards don't need sockets.

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Yeah. putting a socket in a breadboard would be like putting a socket in another socket... what's the point??

 

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pittuck

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• Apr 2, 2005

• #7

ask nigel

 

Nigel Goodwin

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• Apr 2, 2005

• #8

pittuck said:

ask nigel

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I was declining to answer! :lol:

 

Someone Electro

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• Apr 3, 2005

• #9

the only socket i use on the breadbord is an homemade 5 pin conector.I use it to conect my PIC programer to my PIC whithout having to unplug the pic (i use my swish knife to get it off the easyest)

as for 555 timers i simply grab it whit my figers an pull it out.I never even bent a pin on an 555 timer chip (exsept en i knocked one of the desk and exsedentaly spept on it but i bent the pind back and it worked ok)

havning IC sokets on an bread bord is an dumb idea to me.These made for PCBs so that you an replace ICs on them