On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:18:20 -0400, gene glick wrote: > What's your opinion on this? In this application, there are connectors > on the front and rear of the box.
Depends on the number of PCBs to be made. Is is goiing to be mass produced, or just a few prototypes? > 1) Make the board large enough that the connectors are in the > correct positions. > > or > > 2) Make 2 cards, one smaller that fits snuggly against the back, for > example and then a 2nd small board for the front connectors. Then, > cable the 2 cards together. > > In (1), I am worried that the tolerances of the card and box will make > fitting it difficult. > > In (2), I don't like the additional board + cables. You might connect the two PCBs with no cable in between. These connectors allow for about 2mm tolerance: http://www.reichelt.de/?ARTICLE=22827 http://www.reichelt.de/?ARTICLE=51851 ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

