In a message dated 98-01-07 08:47:45 EST, you write:
>
> I am looking for guidance on choosing gold plating thicknesses and
> plating processes for circuit board edge fingers. For example: What are
> the recommendations for circuit board edge fingers that will be inserted
> into a connector and removed 10 times verses a installation/removal
> cycle of 50 times?
Along the same lines, I have an application where I mate / de-mate a connector
hundreds of times. I would ask the TechNet crowd which would be better, gold
or a hard nickel?
Doug Pauls
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