How about a sacrificial socket? This could be either another dual row socket plugged into the one soldered to the board, or a dual row socket on a small PCB that fans it out to a wide DIP width. Put in some of those little pins, and you can drop it into a DIP ZIF socket. Add a procedure, say every 200 tests you rotate plugs, and then once in a while take the stack of spent plug adapters and solder on new dual row sockets. Ok, maybe a bit complex :) Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams On 10/6/05, alan smith wrote: > We have a daughter board that plugs in using a dual row 2.54mm connector, dual row. For testing, we have the same receptical on the main board put on the tester of course. But after few hundred cycles or so...the connector will probably no longer be reliable. > > So...anyone ever seen a ZIF socket or the like for a dual row or even triple row connector? -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist