JJZolx wrote: > There's no need to anchor any of the gang connectors to prevent them > from flexing when connecting cables? As with the CIAudio DAC shown > above? There are going to be screws. A couple more won't make the device > any more difficult to assemble.
There are no tall connectors. The only ganged connector is a dual USB type A, and it isn't very tall, AND it has a bunch of extra ground pins that solder into the board. I put a lot of thought into choosing connectors that will be mechanically sound as well as work well electrically. Everything that will have a fair amount of force applied has a strong mechanical connection to the board. It turned out that the headphone jack was the hardest to get right. Most of them have very wimpy pins that cannot withstand very much force. I was particularly concerned about this since in the last couple years I have had three of these jacks ripped off PC boards. The one I came up with is an especially robust jack with multiple mounting pins to distribute the force on the board. The tallest jacks are the XLR ones. They also have extra mounting pins to distribute force. I was still a little worried so I built a test board with these jacks and did torture tests with connectors from several different companies to make sure they were going work well with a lot of plugging and unplugging. I don't think there is going to be much in the way of mechanical issues with the design. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
