I recently fabricated a pcb. Here is a layout of my board. It is a double sided board. Blue lines are bottom and red lines are top, pads (green) are both bottom and top.
My problem is the top trace. See, I use IC sockets to solder into the board. But since the socket have short legs, I cant solder those legs to the top traces. What should I do? I'm thinking to solder the IC's to the board directly, but won't soldering destroy them? The are just a bunch of 74xx gates. Thanks!
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My problem is the top trace. See, I use IC sockets to solder into the board. But since the socket have short legs, I cant solder those legs to the top traces. What should I do? I'm thinking to solder the IC's to the board directly, but won't soldering destroy them? The are just a bunch of 74xx gates. Thanks!
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