Richard
Reviewed in Canada on August 14, 2024
Excellent, hold well the IC you put in it, no contacts problems. Locking lever functionning well!
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2023
First of all, DO NOT BUY THIS for an eeprom programmer... or preferably for anything at all. All 5 of them came with a significant slant out of the box. This caused issues when attempting to use it - in addition the pins are thin one way but WAY thick the other way. If you try to force it, the pins split because these pins is a folded piece of metal. Absolutely unreal.
Dr. Brian (Wolf) Leverich
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2023
This socket perfectly fits the Raspberry Pi Pico and perfectly fits a standard solderless breadboard.This is particularly useful if you do what I do, which is to say buy a bunch of breadboards and then just leave projects wired up. Now you don't need Yet Another Pico for every single project; you just need another ZIF socket, which costs much less and lets you use a Pico with a specific UF2 and configuration on multiple projects.
Dean Koepke
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023
...for programming. I have one socket on the circuit breadboard and another on the tiny breadboard I use for programming. No messed-up pins during all the moving of the chip between the two.
JD
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2021
They appear to be decent for what they are. I am rating this item as ★★ due to the fact that the item label specifically said "universal", which to me would indicate that it should be able to take most common form factor DIP chips. The pin pitch was given as 2.54mm, which is pretty standard, but gave no indication of the /width/ of chips it could take (it only takes larger chips, as others have mentioned). Given that one cannot always rely on the image shown to be accurate of a given product, particularly when working with electronics components, I trusted that what I received would be universal, when it wasn't.Construction of the device seems to be standard, and seems that it would be unlikely to fail. However, it isn't universal in the sense that one uses for ZIF sockets.
Jon Rothlander
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2021
I bought these to use on breadboards and they work well enough for my needs. If the legs were just a bit longer they would be perfect. But they are a bit short and they do pop out here and there, but they are easy to just push back in. So not perfect for breadboard work, but they do work better than having to plugging in ICs in out, as I have broken a few EEPROMs and memory ICs removing them so often. Of course they work great for soldering onto a prototype board and PCBs.
Clete
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2019
What's not to like. Look at the picture..... It's for wide chips only. EEPROMS like the AT28C256, CAT28C16A not a ATMEGA 328P or 24LC256.
Sam
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2017
Well made but as noted by other buyers these Z.I.F. sockets are for wide D.I.P.s and not normal ones. Even if you splay the legs of the standard D.I.P.S.s it will not allow insertion of the I.C.s.For less than a pound each though, they make for a great way to add numerous components to breadboards easily and securely (not just D.I.P.s)
Mark D.
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2017
Bought the wrong thing. Thought I was buying something to program ATMEL chips with, but I missed these were for larger chips. Still, for the price I think I'll just keep them. Who knows what they may come in handy for.
Warrior of Sunlight
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2016
These are *NOT* slim-compatible.