@Rod Stewart posted:Good find John; that beats DK’s price by a wide margin. Let’s hope they work OK.
I'll know in a couple weeks, I have a board with no sound, everything else works. I'm assuming it's just the amp since that's what has been dead on most of the "no sound" boards.
I've found that instead of trying to solder these with an iron I use my hot air tool. Tin the contacts, a little flux on the chip. Carefully position the chip on the pads and heat one side first, then move over to the other side. I hold the chip in place with a long skinny awl. The last couple have gone on pretty quickly that way. Those TSSOP parts are just too fine a pitch to solder individual pins.
