[time-nuts] SMT Probing Stuff

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Mon Oct 1 13:40:05 UTC 2012


Aging eyesight, for one. For another, I don't like hacking up hardware.
And there is not a lot of access, except from directly above, and lots of
easily melted plastic nereby.

-John

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> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:16:57 -0700 (PDT)
> "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>
>> I recently bought some clean IBM Thinkpads cheap with unknown Boot
>> PassWords. There is a hack to access the existing PWs and rewrite them,
>> but it requires connecting to an 8 pin SMT IC.
>>
>> I know several vendors make "Dip Clip" type devices for connection to
>> such
>> chips, but I'd like reccomendations on whose are really any good.
>
> What speaks against soldering some AWG30 wire onto the pins?
> Usually thats nearly as fast as using a clip, but gives you much
> better connection. Unless i have dozens of boards i have to connect
> to, i usually use this instead of clips.
>
>
> 			Attila Kinali
> --
> The trouble with you, Shev, is you don't say anything until you've saved
> up a whole truckload of damned heavy brick arguments and then you dump
> them all out and never look at the bleeding body mangled beneath the heap
> 		-- Tirin, The Dispossessed, U. Le Guin
>
>






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