On 15.10.14 16:45, Kirk Wallace wrote: > The example pin beds I have found on the Net have used vero(?) boards > which have .1" spacing, but the spacing I need is 5mm and .15" and I > don't have time to make up a custom PC board.
Ah, that's a lot harder, but you'd have 5.08mm pitch when using every second pin at 0.1" pitch. By drilling some of the holes larger, and gluing the connector in place, that could suffice for a modest number of pins. But there's another way to use common connectors on strange boards, if you're game. To add a couple of extra dual-row 10 pin headers to the Arduino board, I gingerly ground away some of the circuit traces on both sides, drilled holes on 0.1" grid, and super-glued the connector to the PCB. Then I just ran fine wires where needed. Admittedly, I'll (almost certainly) make a PCB in the longer term, but this has been fine for half a year now. It has seen a lot of connection/disconnection handling in that time, as I'm experimenting with the board. To ensure alignment between boards, I'd glue one set first, and let the other side set while mated with the first. I haven't tried hot melt glue, and the superglue is fine for the dual-row headers. (Which can be made up by gluing two single rows together, if that's what's to hand.) Another thing the angle grinder excelled at was making a rectangular cut-out in the edge of the daughterboard (shield). The coarse wheel was like a plasma cutter, quick but very neat. Erik -- A wife asks her husband, a software engineer: "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get six." A short time later the husband comes back with six cartons of milk. The wife asks him, "Why did you buy six cartons of milk?" He replied, "They had eggs." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
