[sdiy] Today's Pet Peeve

[David G Dixon]

> If they all "standardized" on a single thickness, then it 
> wouldn't work in every situation.

Yeah.  I don't care.  There should at least be a series of common
PCB-mounted components with the same thickness as a typical mini-toggle
switch.  At least those all seem to be the same thickness.  Of course, 16-mm
Alpha pots work, because they have give, so their exact thickness doesn't
matter too much.  Why can't all components be as trouble-free as Alpha pots?

WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (dammit)

> p.s. I just built a module with three panel mount components 
> plus a button and display that have to line up with the 
> panel. Of the three components, there were two different 
> heights, so I needed parallel PCBs - one for the shallower 
> components, and another for the deeper components. The 
> distance between my PCBs was determined by the difference in 
> height between the compoments. The board-to-board connectors 
> are available in many different heights, but my PCBs were too 
> close for any of them. I ended up needing the header pins to 
> go through one side of a PCB to a connector on the far side 
> that could handle pins passing all the way through one side 
> and out the other.

Yeah, so you're feeling my pain.