Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!wb8foz From: David Lesher Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,sci.electronics.components Subject: Re: DIP IDC Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:07:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1514574469 21668 166.84.1.5 (29 Dec 2017 19:07:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:07:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:489601 sci.electronics.components:6271 bitrex writes: >Could you whip up a bunch of little PCB adapters? Pads for the >cheap IDC males on one side, pads for some thick durable pins >to slot into the DIP sockets on the other (that also route the >conductors appropriately)? Zero clearance on the DIP end. It's under something else. >The pins on the one in the second link look like they were >designed to be soldered once permanently to a PCB. They won't >survive too many insertion-removal cycles. If they don't need >to be cycled then the question is why have the sockets there at >all. The sockets on both ends, the 8-pin DIP & the 2x4 0.1 IDC are on existing boards. I wish the 2x4 was male headers, and I may be able to get a special order on them so it will be, but the DIP is on the PLC itself. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433