Just got lm3875 and it won't fit in breadboard

[max97230]

Is there something I can get for a breadboard that lets me connect it? The LM3875 chip's pins are spaced too wide to get into the breadboard, and I think the pins themselves are too big even if they were spaced correctly. What am I supposed to get to use this thing?

Thanks!

[abraxalito]

Only 5 out of 11 pins actually do anything on this chip. Perhaps you could cut off the NCs and bend the remaining pins to fit some enlarged holes in a breadboard?

The other two alternatives are to build 'in the air' or to get a standard PCB from a source like eBay.

[Redshift187]

After cutting off the NC pins, would it fit better diagonally?

[ratza]

It fits perfectly if it is mounted diagonally. Don't break the extra pins, leave them for stability.

[matherp]

Here is a breadboard layout for a LM3875 as per the datasheet. R4 is mounted upright across adjacent tracks. It includes zobel components R5 and C5 which you can omit as required

[macboy]

Isn't that a "stripboard", not a "breadboard"? I always take breadboard to mean the solderless prototyping board like this:

[AndrewT]

yes,
the big pins of a chipamp will damage the receptacles of the plugboard.
I would call it a breadboard as well.

[matherp]

What pedants

Sorry, I always use the term wrong because I never bother with breadboard as with tinycad and veecad I can knock out a design for stripboard very quickly and if the circuit is right it always works with no worries over poor joints.

For reference the pins on a LM3875 will not fit in a BREADBOARD but will fit in a STRIPBOARD

best regards

Peter