The probe sockets are designed to be press-fit into a CNC drilled plastic or bakelite plate. The drawing even tells you what size holes to use for a couple different plate materials. The plate determines the mechanical location of the pins, then depending on which socket you use you can wire wrap, solder, or crimp wires from them to a connector of your choice. Or you can do what I did and lay out a PC board that does both location and interconnect.
Andy has a CNC mill, so if he has a piece of suitable plastic and a drill bit he can make whatever pattern he needs. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.10.14 16:45, Kirk Wallace wrote: > > The example pin beds I have found on the Net have used vero(?) boards > > which have .1" spacing, but the spacing I need is 5mm and .15" and I > > don't have time to make up a custom PC board. > > Ah, that's a lot harder, but you'd have 5.08mm pitch when using every > second pin at 0.1" pitch. By drilling some of the holes larger, and > gluing the connector in place, that could suffice for a modest number of > pins. But there's another way to use common connectors on strange > boards, if you're game. > > To add a couple of extra dual-row 10 pin headers to the Arduino board, I > gingerly ground away some of the circuit traces on both sides, drilled > holes on 0.1" grid, and super-glued the connector to the PCB. Then I > just ran fine wires where needed. Admittedly, I'll (almost certainly) > make a PCB in the longer term, but this has been fine for half a year > now. It has seen a lot of connection/disconnection handling in that > time, as I'm experimenting with the board. > > To ensure alignment between boards, I'd glue one set first, and let the > other side set while mated with the first. I haven't tried hot melt > glue, and the superglue is fine for the dual-row headers. (Which can be > made up by gluing two single rows together, if that's what's to hand.) > > Another thing the angle grinder excelled at was making a rectangular > cut-out in the edge of the daughterboard (shield). The coarse wheel was > like a plasma cutter, quick but very neat. > > Erik > > -- > A wife asks her husband, a software engineer: "Could you please go shopping > for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get six." A short > time later the husband comes back with six cartons of milk. The wife asks > him, "Why did you buy six cartons of milk?" He replied, "They had eggs." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- John Kasunich [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
