Re[2]: If I find the guy who designed the Star Wars EMI board . . .

From: Jon Raiford <raiford_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 15:46:45 EDT

At 07:44 PM 10/19/2000 +0400, you wrote:
>IF you have a crimp-on edge connector on each pcb then change it NOW!

Every edge connector I put together is crimped. As far as I know, it is perfectly fine to crimp (in fact Bob Roberts swears by them).

>GOOD edge connectors have split-contacts so there are 2 copper fingers pressing against the pcb instead of the usual single contact.

The ones I use (also happens to be the ones Bob sells) are split pins (2 contacts).

So.. Is there any *real* reason to waste all that time soldering/heat shrinking to solder tail edge connectors? Heaven forbid you break a pin and have to start over.. At least with the crimp style, you can replace a single bad pin if need be.

Jon

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