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
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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