Steve:
I certainly did mean what I said about the doubtful reliability of any electrical connection not based on a metallic bond, like soldering. Turns out that we have a lot of familiarity with Nitinol because we have developed an electropolish for Nitinol, primarily aimed at the medical device world (stents).
We have seen that unless the Nitinol is oxide free, it will not polish, no matter what voltage you apply.
And whereas I would like to sell the preparation system we have developed for preparation for electropolishing, in this case it is almost certainly unnecessary, as simple fine steel wool will likely be excellent preparation for whatever is the next step.
Of everything suggested so far on this matter on Technet, I most like Mike Fenner's suggestion of using his extreme aggressive flux to solder to say a Copper wire, carefully cleaning the flux residue off, then soldering the Copper wire to the PCB.
Rudy Sedlak
RD Chemical Company
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Subject: Re: [TN] Connecting to Nitinol
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Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 3:23 AM
Rudy,
Do you have a plating system that can reliably plate to the Nitinol and subsequently be reliably soldered??
You meant this, right? "I have doubts about the long term performance of any connection not based on soldering"?
Steve Creswick
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In a related world, we do a lot with Nitinol. Based on our experience with Nitinol, I have doubts about the long term performance of any connection not based on soldering. Nitinol is a high fraction Titanium, and when the Titanium grows an oxide, the resistance soars, to the point where it is practically non-conducting.
Rudy Sedlak
RD Chemical Company
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