[Live_Steam_Mad]

Can someone please tell me where they are getting their 30-pin DIP / DIL sockets from for their Arduino Nano?

My Nano with CH340G chipset arrived yesterday and I tried manually press fitting it into a "Turned Pin" / "Precision" 40-pins socket (which I have not soldered to the board yet) but it would not go in (too tight, hurt my fingers) whereas it did go into a standard / cheap 40-pin socket (the ones with the weak bendy thin legs) but with considerable force needed from my fingers.

I was thinking that maybe I could cut up a 40 pin socket for use on the actual PCB but then there would only be one supporting "bridge" of plastic at one end of the board, and I always use those bridges to lever against when I am removing the chip from it's socket.

I can only find Turned Pin 30 pin sockets in UK, and they are too tight for this style of chip (with the Nano having it's pins that stick up into your fingers) whereas this type of socket did allow me to fit my Nintendo / Ricoh RP2C03B PPU in rather nicely when I was doing my Nintendo NES RGB modification.

I can find a NTE435K30 from Radioshack that looks like it would do the job nicely, but I don't seem to be able to obtain these in UK and I can't order from Radioshack in USA? and there are none on Ebay that I can see.

http://www.radioshack.com/nte435k30-30-p...IOU48mTVRp

Help?!

BTW my friend's old Davis VP1 arrived and it's a disaster, the transmitter board is corroded with blue Copper Sulphate deposit (something ate the PCB's copper), I tried a new power cell in the PCB with cleaned contacts on the battery terminals and still no transmissions on 868 MHz (I used my scanner dongle, I can hear the transmissions from my FO 1081 clearly on 433.9MHz), the wind vane has much higher resistance to turning than it should have (worn out? grit / dirt in bearings?), the transmitter box has both of the 2 tabs broken off so the cover won't stay on, the cover itself is missing, and the tipping Rain guage cover (inverted plant pot) is missing. And he forgot to send me the console. LOL.

Finally my FO1081 had a wind speed glitch of 103Km/h tonight, the 2nd one in 2 weeks, with 2 different anemometers!

Regards,

Alistair G.