Difference between.....

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What is the difference between hole mounted components and surface
mounted components?

Which is better?

 

[PeteS]

<< There is no difference electrically, just size and package.>>

True at a basic level, but not at high frequencies. Bob noted lower
parasitics, and that's important in high speed interconnects (in fact,
even 0603 has high parasitics when presented with 2.5Gb/s pairs). For
really high speed stuff (up to 10Gb/s pairs) we're moving to 0201 and
even 01005 for things like series caps and pullups.

I agree with you that in a lot of cases, you choose what you prefer (or
need for the product), though.

Cheers

PeteS

 

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Thanks everyone for your extremely quick and well detailed responses.

I was just wondering as I am just starting out with my electronics
hobby and was
wondering if learning to make PCB's is worth my time or if i should
just use surface
mounted.