Hi You are going to fabricate the “base” as a solid piece. Getting a coax style connector into that is just a matter of your credit limit. The larger issue on the device is making the “cover” out of metal. That probably isn’t going to work very well :) Now you are off into a glass cover of some sort with a weld flange on it. If you thought the tooling on the coax connector was exciting, it just took second place …
========== The bigger question is: If you had the choice of a > $5,000 version of this device that would not fail from (internal) humidity, would you buy a few thousand of them? My guess is that you would still buy the $250 ( I *think* that was the original price …) version and a couple of spares. I’d bet more of them die from lightning hits than from humidity. Bob > On Dec 1, 2020, at 2:03 PM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [email protected] said: >> Yes, there’s more to it if you want to get connections in and out. Forget >> about “hermetic” connectors, they aren’t up to the task. You need glass to >> metal seals embedded in the structure. Now you have even more constraints on >> the package. > > What's available in the way of glass-metal seals for coax? (The antenna > signal has to get in somehow.) > > > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
