[sdiy] Reliability: Share your lessons learned

[Harry Bissell]

well.. I'm all FOR those euro board mounted jacks. Then I can find your
effects and amps sitting at the curb on trash day, take them home and
add a simple FLEXIBLE jumper wire past the broken spot on the PCB and
I'm good to go with your ex-gear :^)

(I have actually done this MANY times :^)

H^) harry



----- Original Message -----
From: David G. Dixon <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: 'Tom Wiltshire' <tom at electricdruid.net>, 'Mike Beauchamp' <mikebeauchamp at gmail.com>
Cc: 'sdiy DIY' <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:16:04 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Reliability: Share your lessons learned

> Did I mention that I hate those stupid 2.1mm DC
> connectors too? Especially if they're soldered to the PCB - that's
> *asking* for trouble. Eventually the strains put on the socket will crack
> the solder joints and it'll stop working.

Everyone hates those!  IME, that's always the first thing that fails on a
laptop computer as well.  All hail Steve for the Mac magnetic power plug!

> Doesn't work:
> 	PCB mounting of commonly used jacks and connectors
> 	Cheap pots (although these are easily repaired)

Ditto on the cheap pots!  Concerning board-mounted jacks, I'm wondering just
how long all this cheap-ass Euro crap flooding the modular market is going
to last...  :)

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