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Step 5 Soldering the MAX1551/1555 to the breakout board.

The MAX1551/1555 is in a so called SOT-23 package, which means it's really tiny. To make it a bit easier to wire, you can use a breakout board; I used a SOT-23-6 to to DIP adapter I found on eBay. Soldering the IC to the adapter can be tricky and requires a little bit of patience.
You can follow this guide, but I'll summarize here:

1. Place a small amount of solder on each of the pads (the guide linked above does this a bit differently).
    
2. Place the IC with a pair of tweezers or a small clamp on the board and solder one of the legs.
    
3. Gently put a little pressure on the IC and heat all the legs so that solder will flow between the board and the legs.
    
4. After letting it cool for a second, we can check the connections by measuring the resistance between the IC leg and the soldering holes in the board.

You can also fill the holes with a little bit of solder now to make it easier to attach the wires later.