Re[3]: If I find the guy who designed the Star WarsEMI board . . .

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From: Jon Raiford <raiford@mindspring.com>
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:46:45 -0400
Subject: Re[2]: VECTOR: If I find the guy who designed the Star WarsEMI board . . .

> 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
>
I have never seen 'twin-contact' crimp edge-connectors but if u can get them then thats fine.
just so long as people get rid of that crap atari used before it's 2 late!

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Received on Fri Oct 20 23:09:39 2000