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Re: gEDA-user: Contact reliability

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Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Contact reliability
From: Marvin Dickens <mpdickens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:50:39 -0500
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As I see it, the advantage to spring loaded contacts as compared to wire
nuts is that *many* contacts are maintained very few fasteners. In
theory, you could use quantity-2 fasteners (A screw with a nut and
washer) to maintain 100 contacts.

Best 

Marvin

> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:43 +0000, Karel Kulhavy wrote:

> Currently, Ronja is using wire nuts. We haven't yet noticed a failure tracked
> down to a wire nut and they are mechanically rugged. Also they seem to perform
> fairly well up to say 300MHz (when the incoming and outgoing cables are
> impedance-matched coaxials) according to edge observations on oscilloscope.

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- gEDA-user: Contact reliability
  - From: Karel Kulhavy
- Re: gEDA-user: Contact reliability
  - From: Marvin Dickens
- Re: gEDA-user: Contact reliability
  - From: Karel Kulhavy

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