At 08:21 14/05/97 +0200, Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
>(Yet) Another thing. Avoid having wires soldered onto the board.
>Taking into acount the number of comebacks and the assembly costs,
>it may be cheaper to have a socket soldered on and then have
>harnesses made up.

I'd like to ask you for some comments on this question wires vs.
connectors. I have a (redesign) project for a very rugged device (for high
temperature industrial environments), and up to now they pot the
electronics and leave some wires coming out (which are soldered into the
PCB) for (solder) connecting to either a connector or a fixed cable leaving
the case. This seems to me the most reliable way to connect the board to
the rest of the world (in this special case of a need for high ruggedness),
so I thought just to let this as it is.

BTW, what do you mean by "make up harnesses"? (I'm not familiar with this
expression.)

Thanks,

Gerhard