[sdiy] 0.100 pin header reliability.

Ian Fritz ijfritz at comcast.net
Mon Nov 15 20:34:00 CET 2010


At 12:18 PM 11/15/2010, Graham Atkins wrote:
>Aluminium for wiring ?
>
>Are you sure about that, sounds highly unlikely, never heard of
>aluminium
>conductors. Steel, copper alloys, silver, even gold but not aluminium.

Oh absolutely!  This was used in the 1970s at a time when copper prices 
were extremely high.  I had a house for a while with that stuff in 
it.  Fortunately I sold it before I had any problems.

Ian




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