In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:00:36 -0500: Hi, [snip] >IIRC gold is no great shakes in the conductivity department; it's used >in connectors because it won't tarnish. Again, that might be a win for >very HF work where you really care whether there's a semiconductive >surface film of crud or not, but for low frequency work I suspect you're >better off with plain copper than gold (but I didn't look this up and I >could be all wet here). OTOH gold plating is presumably a lot cheaper >than palladium plating if skin effect is a problem. [snip] Order of conductivity:-
Ag, Cu, Au, Al. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
