When I first started with DLA I jumped right in and built the DMX dongle. I had never soldered before so I purchased two pcd's and parts to match. Good thing I did two because I screwed up the first one. In my hast to finish I soldered the chip directly to the board. Instead of leaving it alone I decided to remove it from the board and install the socket base. Bad idea, in the process I destroyed the chip.
To make along story short does anyone have a optocoupler 6N137 chip for the DMX dongle they want to get off their shelf?
