Steve,
If it makes you feel any better, I actually have a customer that wants me to solder their press fit connectors in and NOT press them. Yep....this is true. And the reason behind this is that the boards are protos and that's what they did when they first built them at their place. Of course, this makes the process more difficult because the press connectors don't stand up straight. We actually need another tool to keep them upright while we hand solder.
-Carrie
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From: Steve Gregory [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Press fit connectors...
Yeah Ryan,
I did. But now it's not an internal thing, we sent some boards to a customer that had the connectors pressed-in as designed, but there's been someone there that has made a HUGE deal that we were so incompetent to actually send them assemblies that didn't have soldered connections.
I know that there are press-fit connectors that do have solderable leads, but I've always learned, and understood, that if it's a press-fit, that's exactly what it is...
I've also thought about the technology and thought that if you soldered a press-fit connector, it really wasn't buying you anything, and could actually cause more problems.
All I know is we have a customer that thinks I'm a idiot (I was the one that told production to press the connector in and not solder it), and I was just trying to see if I was the only one who thought that press-fit connectors shouldn't be soldered...
Oh well, when you are working for a EMS company, you ARE all about customer satisfaction...BTW, there wasn't anything documented to solder these press-fit connectors.
-Steve "the idiot" Gregory-
Steve, didn't you already ask this question when you first hired on with this company and saw people soldering the press fit connectors? Are they still giving you grief for suggesting not to solder the press fit connectors?
Ryan Grant
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