I'm looking at building an inductive charger (based on the design at http://people.oregonstate.edu/~watersal/documents/uhc_awaters.pdf), and there are a few components they use that are surface-mounted as opposed to the kind you can use in a breadboard (no idea what the name is…). I need help finding equivalents I can use in a breadboard. Any suggestions?
Here are the ICs in question:
- LT6106 (high-side current sense amplifier)
- TPS62000-05 (low-voltage step-down converter)
Any ideas whatsoever (or for that matter any suggestions for how to use surface-mounted ICs on a breadboard) would be tremendously appreciated.
Best Answer
What you need are break-out boards. They are small boards to which you solder your surface-mount device, and they have pins on 0.1" centers so you can plug them into a breadboard. One example is Bellin Dynamic Systems 1. By the way, the opposite of surface-mount is usually called "through-hole".