Wouter,

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:14:46 +0200, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> >>    Does anyone have any better ideas?
> > 
> > Yes. Do you want TH or SMD? I have both in stock but never 
> > bothered to put them on my website.
> 
> sorry, mistake: TH only. I think SMD would not be a good choice for this
> type of connector.

I don't think SMD is a good idea for *any* type of connector - you are relying on the track-glue to withstand the forces applied to the connector.  In 
fact I don't think any components that project more than a few mm above the board should be surface-mounted - I have three of Olin's Quick-Proto 
boards, and on two of them capacitors were detached in shipping - they are about 10mm diameter and 10mm high, and the force of moving about in 
the post detached one from one contact, and another completely!  I did mean to tell him about it and suggest TH for these larger parts, but I never 
got round to it...

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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