16Pin DIL IC Socket

A socket that solders to the board so the 16-pin chip pushes in rather than being soldered directly. Worth using for three reasons: an expensive or hard-to-source chip can be recovered if the board fails, a faulty chip can be swapped in seconds instead of desoldering sixteen pins, and the chip never sees soldering heat. Standard practice for microcontrollers, EEPROMs and anything you might want to reprogram or reuse. Chip can be removed and reused without desoldering; No soldering heat reaches the IC; Faults diagnosed by swapping chips in seconds; Standard 16-pin DIL footprint