Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

previous by date index next by date
previous in topic topic list next in topic

Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Measurements for the male side of an edge \tconnector?

From: "H. Carl Ott" <hcarlott@...>
Date: 2010-02-14

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...>wrote:

> Remember that gold plating the edge connector usually requires you (or
>
> the board shop) to extend the tongues out and run them together in a
> shorting bar, so they can be contacted for gold plating.
>

Another possibly minor issue is that the edge of the pcb should be beveled
to accept the mating connector. Back in the 80's we used to have a lot of
S-100 boards made. When the edges were not beveled it made inserting the
boards difficult, and if I remember correctly could occasionally actually
damage pins on the connector. If the board shop did not do it, we would have
to file the bevel by hand.


--
carl
--------------------------------------------------------
Henry Carl Ott N2RVQ hcarlott@...


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]