[HN Gopher] Digikey's Physical Connectors Tutorial ___________________________________________________________________ Digikey's Physical Connectors Tutorial Author : dragontamer Score : 22 points Date : 2023-07-25 04:57 UTC (18 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.digikey.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.digikey.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-25 23:01 UTC)