On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 11:52:04 AM Andreas Pettersson wrote: > Regarding plastic connectors, neutriks work well really well. And are > dead simple to connect.
And as the CE at a tv station for the last 18 years I worked, I have plenty of experience with the neutriks XLR style connector in 3 and 4 pin varieties. Hand such a connector to our news dept people and it will come home from the first interview with the latching tab demolished. But in fairness to neutrik, when news complained it won't stay plugged in now, my reply was that I didn't break it, and all you to do to not break it was learn to press the latch. It took me about a year and at least a 24 pack of those connectors to get those monkeys potty trained. Once potty trained of course then they head off to a bigger market & I had to start all over. One of those thankless tasks that is the Chief Engineers lot in life I guess. FWIW I will not discuss the SwitchCraft version of that connector since those I needed to buy by the grocery sack until I found the neutrik. And before someone yells its cheap at 3 or 4 bucks, is your time worth when the have to be replaced at least guarterly on every cable in the place that uses them. That was 10-12 in the studio, and 2 or 3 in every news car, with at least 6 cars on the road, more on high school game nights. But as far as cable retention went, its the absolute tops in the business. The plastic pieces that make up the cable clamp were however, about 1/2 the reason the whole connector was replaced. The 3 jaw nylon bits were ok, but the plastic nut that held the rubber stress relief, and drove those nylon parts, was a major breakage point as they aged. I think it embrittled with old age. The only thing puny about the latch was its ability to get caught on a passing door frame and jerked out or broken off when the monkeys with a journalism degree just jerked on it instead of going back and lifting the end of the latch back out of the door frame or off whatever it had caught on. > But they arent as cheap as the aluminium cast ones with brass > connectors. And i have had plastic neutrik connectors that basicly > melted when exposed to coolant and Dexron 3 oil (as i use for > lubricant in some machining). > Yeah its not instant and you will catch it and be able to change them. > That is apparently not a huge concern for the CB mic connector I am using. But I will check digi-key for look-a-likes before I order again. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
