5050 SMD LED component?

I'm new to Fritzing and get the general idea of how to use generic IC chips but I need this particular LED component and I don't know where to begin. Can anyone offer some help or better yet a component file? Thanks!

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago by Jerware

+1. I tried to make one but I'm pretty new to Fritzing.

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by captomner

Would it really matter? I would just use the generic LED and then in your part properties put the actual part number for the LED. I personally only use Fritzing for a graphical representation of my circuit. If I actually make a board I use TinyCAD or possibly EagleCAD.

Of course if you really want to use Fritzing to make a board you will have to learn to use the schematic and pcb tools and how to create custom parts.

You can look here if you want to give you some idea how to create your own custom parts:

http://fritzing.org/learning/tutorials/

or

http://fritzing.org/learning/tutorials/creating-custom-parts/

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by ZK

Can you guys point us to a datasheet? Then we'll put it on the to-do list.

Thanks,
André

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by André Knörig

André

This one is for a 5050 with 3 white elements:

http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/232116/ETC2/T5050.html

And this one is for an RGB:

http://www.betlux.com/product/SMD_LED/BL-LS5050A0S3.PDF

Thanks!

ZK,

Maybe I wasn't clear in my initial post, but I'm using Fritzing for making boards, not just schematics. I tried using the parts editor to create the part but I wasn't successful in getting it working right. Thanks for the links though; I'm looking forward to the new parts editor coming out.

Thanks,

Tom

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by captomner

I posted a new tutorial Making a new SMD package for a generic IC in Fritzing

It might help, if you are satisfied with a generic IC in the package of your part, which seems to be PLCC-6 ?

I looked in Fritizing for that package, but could not find it. I am surprised I could not find any PLCC packages (but maybe I didn't look hard enough.) If you could find a PLCC-8 (two rows of four pins), you could buy a socket and put your part at one end of it. PLCC has springy pins that curl under the chip. They snap into sockets or can be soldered.

There might exist a PLCC to DIP adaptor of say 16 pins. Then you could get by with that.

I doubt whether a new part editor will relieve you of the chore of drawing the SMD footprint in the PCB image SVG file? It will just automate editing the metadata file, which is easy enough?

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by bootchk

Hi Bootchk,

Wow--very nice totorial.

Cheers,

- j

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by Jonathan Cohen

Except it is a draft. I can't get it to work. I thought because I had gotten a Mystery Part with 3 pins to work, I knew enough to write about Generic IC. There's something I don't understand yet.

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by bootchk

I fixed the tutorial. It now builds a part having an abstract, shared, generic IC image in the breadboard instead of a unique image of an adaptor. Quick and dirty solution for most users. Probably not adequate for parts to be distributed with Fritzing.

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago by bootchk

Thanks for taking the time to do this, Bootchk. I haven't had the time delve in and re-try my part, but it gives me something to work with until they get the 5050 released officially. Thanks!

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago by captomner

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