> On Jan 21, 2012, at 7:12 AM, PICdude wrote:
>
> I'll be making the small PCB's (actually having them made), so there's
> no scrap to use. The pieces of the gold-plated connector sounds nice,
> but that's what I'm looking for -- something I can get from
> Digikey/Mouser that I can pull the connectors out of.
>
>
>
> Quoting YES NOPE9 <
.....yesKILLspam
@spam@nope9.com>:
>
>> If reliability is key , use some gold plated scrap.
>> You could use gold plated pins , or pieces of gold-plated pcb
>> or pieces out of a gold plated connector.
>> Otherwise, solder is fine. You can use silver solder which is easy to get.
>> 99guspuppet
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 9:41 PM, PICdude wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm making a quick-and-dirty connector/contact that would connect a
>>> wire to an existing PCB pad (~3/8" x 1/4"). I've reduced the design
>>> to having another small piece of PCB touch the existing PCB pad, and
>>> at first I thought I'd wrap a piece of wire around the new PCB (such
>>> that the wire would touch the existing pad), but now thinking I can
>>> use a pad on the new PCB with a blob of solder on it to touch the
>>> existing pad.
>>>
>>> Should I worry about oxidation? IIRC some bulb holders used solder as
>>> a contact and that works fine. This is a non-critical connection.
>>> Otherwise, is there a better solder I can use? Gold plating would not
>>> be easy/viable. This page (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solder )
>>> says that Sn63PbP is used for HASL, but I don't know where I can find
>>> this in wire form or low volume.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, I can put a couple holes on the new PCB and solder a
>>> solid wire across it, such that that solid wire would be the contact.
>>> But a blob of solder would be much easier, and I need to make a few
>>> dozen of these.
>>>
>>> I need the blob of solder, wire, or other to be about 0.01" to 0.03"
>>> thick, and I can't find any test-points low-profile enough.
>>>
>>> Any other thoughts?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -Neil.
