By sliding lengthwise, imagine you are installing a peripheral card into
your computer, PCI, ISA, AGP, PCI-E; doesn't matter. Instead of pushing it
in from the top of the connector, say the end of the connector that faces
the back of the computer was open and instead of having to take the side
off the computer to install this card, you could just slide it in from the
back. Then the first finger would actually come in contact with the mating
surface for the last finger at first then be slid past all the other
contacts before coming in contact with its mating contacts at the end of
the cards travel.
You wouldn't easily be able to hot swappable with this design, but I'm not
trying to right now either.
On Jul 15, 2012 4:13 PM, "James Newton" <
jamesmichaelnewton@...>
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "davesversion" <dave.bobb@...>
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> > Has anyone seen any kind of dual card edge mounting that would slide in
> lengthwise?
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> I'm not sure what you mean by "slide in lengthwise".
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> There are lots of connectors that can be used on the edge of card, and
> where the card can be slid into a slot where the connector mates at the
> back. The old standard for that was card edge, where there was a connector
> on the "mother" board at the back of the slots, and the edge of the PCB
> just slides into that connector. You can still find that type on floppy
> drives. The problem with them is that they are notoriously unreliable. They
> were used on Nintindo game cartridges if that tells you anything. ,o)
>
> I've used DB9 and DB25 solder tail connectors with the PCB wedged in
> between the rows of connectors:
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> http://www.piclist.com/techref/io/serial/RCL1.htm (scroll down a bit for
> a picture of the board)
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> http://www.ecomorder.com/techref/ecomprice.asp?p=416012
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> In those cases, it isn't sliding into a slot, but I've seen that done
> before and it works pretty well. Male on one side and female on the other
> side. E.g. the Male on the card edge and the female at the back of the slot.
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> You can also use standard 1/10 headers on the edge of a card, and there
> are female connectors that can mount thought hole on the mother board. Have
> to have a really tight slot to align those.
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