Hey
Steve - I feel your pain! We had a similar situation with a
customer that demanded that the action pins be soldered (may have been the same
customer). :) ...and we had the benefit of
having our mother companies' action pin designers trying to convince them not to
it - to no avail. They eventually regretted it.
If I
could offer you any advice, it would be to make damn sure that the connectors
are oriented correctly before you solder -- cuz you ain't gettin em
out!
As a
wise man once said, "The customer is always right, even when they're
wrong"
Hi Rich!
This connector does have
compliant pins, but AMP (Tyco) calls them "Action Pins".
Here's the
datasheet:
http://catalog.tycoelectronics.com/TE/docs/pdf/7/49/222947.pdf
The holes in the board are what the datasheet calls out for that
connector, I just got through checking the gerber. Everything is set-up
perfectly to press it, and forget it!
(where have I heard that before? Ron
Popeil?...oh no, it's set-it, and fah-get it!)
But we're still gonna
press and solder the darn thing in because that's what the customer wants, and
we ARE all about customer satisfaction.
-Steve Gregory-
I think it is important to note that, as most of us know,
compliant pin technology is not designed to be soldered. All
pressfit connections are not compliant - some pressfit connections are
designed with retention features that are there only to enable a good
soldered connection. Connections designed for compliant pins which have
proper drilled hole size, and proper plating should never have to be
soldered. It's when these factors are not met that suppliers and
customers have to discuss either scrapping the board or soldering the
compliant connections and accept the risks associated with that decision.
After having spent many years working for the worlds's largest connector
manufacturer, I never heard of a failure caused by an "unsoldered"
compliant! pin.
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