On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
[799] via coreboot wrote:
Do you have any recommendations if it makes sense to invest a bit more budget and buy a more expensive clip or will the quality be the same?
The Pomona 5250 Clip: https://www.tme.eu/gb/details/pom-5250/test-clips/pomona/5250/
I have no idea about the clip you used before, but the Pomona 5250 plastic compound is not very hard and contacts are not very robust, so after some (ab)use it will certainly also wear out.
These clips are test tools for occasional use, not development tools.
You can obvioulys use them for development anyway, but keep in mind what they are designed for, so that you have the right expectations.
Pogo-pin adapters are little bit more robust but they would require holding arm and they require precise pin positioning while clip grabbers do most of self-adjustment job. AFAICS SOIC-8 variants are available on eBay at this moment.