Actually, there's a better way :) (getting rid of the solder is one of the pains of replacing those connectors.)
There are hundreds of kinds of pins for bed-o-nails fixtures, including ones that are meant to toich pins (cup varieties), ones that are meant to touch bare metal areas like SMT pads (castle-type, I think), and ones that are meant to poke into empty holes, which are basically cone shaped. These are also available in sockets - you populate the socket into the text fixture board, and then you can choose which type of pin to insert, and can repair a bent/broken probe pin by just putting in a new one. At my old company, test jig repairs were basically eliminated when we went to the socketed probe pins. - Steve Kyle wrote: >Maybe this is a dumb point. Could you not flow solder on the contacts on >the board and let the user choose? > >Kyle > >Jon Elson wrote: > > >>I can't test it on my bed-of-nails text fixture without >>something soldered in those holes. Maybe I should prominently >>list the screw-terminal option on my price list. It sure is a >>pain of somebody has to pull the whole board out of their system >>and send it for repair. >>Fortunately, that is extremely rare, unless they get hit by >>lightning. >> >>Jon >>Emc-users mailing list >>Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-user >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
