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| dragontamer wrote:
| Though physical connectors in electronics are a boring subject, I
| do think its one of the "important" subjects that's commonly
| overlooked in electronics tutorials or books.
|
| The fact is that there are many companies with many combinations
| of connectors and wires. Much as how a mechanical engineer has to
| inevitably learn the difference from a Philips head screw vs a
| Torx screw, electrical engineers will need to learn the
| difference between D-Sub, 0.1" pin headers, and other such
| connectors, as well as the pros/cons of each.
| zgluck wrote:
| Im my experience: If there's one thing that makes sense to
| stock at your own little lab - to avoid waiting 1-3 days for
| getting that little thing that blocks that project you want to
| complete - it's a wide assortment of connectors. The rest can
| often be improvised in many ways using various microcontroller
| boards and voltage level converters etc that you'll probabably
| already have.
| quenix wrote:
| I might be a bit weird, but I find fitting proper connectors
| onto hardware super satisfying.
|
| I suppose I see a good connector as a good polish to an
| interface, similar to what might be found in software, for
| example. I get the same type of satisfaction that comes from
| polishing the interface for some API or other product I've been
| working on for a while.
|
| It just makes it feel more like a finished product. The final
| touch. The step moving away from jerryrig wires and
| oscilloscope probes to rugged connectors.
| foobarbecue wrote:
| Why are crimping tools always so dang expensive?
| flaviut wrote:
| Low volume, and everyone who isn't a big company just buys
| clones.
|
| If you are a company or care about reliability, you have to get
| the OEM version but hopeful you amortize it over thousands of
| crimps.
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