[sdiy] Hooking up a Power-One unit

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 05 April 2009 09:20:17 pm John Luciani wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> 
wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 April 2009 07:33:08 pm David G. Dixon wrote:
> >> John,
> >>
> >> The terminals are little solid cylinders, about 1 cm high and maybe 2.5
> >> cm in diameter,
> >
> > Was that supposed to be 2.5mm?
> >
> >> with one little ring or flange about halfway up and another at the top.
> >
> > That sounds like what I'd call "turret" terminals.  I have some boards
> > somewhere that have a row of those down each side,  with the equipment
> > originally having parts connected across the board and a wiring harness
> > running along either side to make the rest of the connections.  Crude, 
> > but this was pretty old stuff.
>
> That does sound like turret terminals. Surprising for a new power supply.
>
> (* jcl *)

I'd guess that the alternative would be solder eyelets,  and the turrets,  if 
swaged properly to the board,  would be a lot more robust,  while the eyelets 
would tend to bend,  eventually breaking...

The pic in the pdf file referred to confirmed my guess.

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