On 29 Jan 2018 at 20:26, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

> I've been using these for several years. The "legged" versions have a
> fairly large footprint, but are good for debug. The legless versions need
> to be held in place, but work well for production programming. The clips
> to hold the legless version in place are marginal and VERY easy to lose.
> I've thought about undersizing the holes for the alignment pins a bit so
> the board would hold the alignment pins securely, but I have not done
> that. Most of my stuff has holes for the legs. A couple products don't
> have room though, so I lost a bunch of retaining clips while debugging.

Thanks Harold, good to hear about your experiences. You mighn't have lost s=
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many clips if you used the official "Bend-It-Yourself TM" hanger...=20
http://www.tag-connect.com/TC20X0-CLIP-HANGER ;-)

I was wondering why the clips come in packs of three. I will glue one to my=
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prototype PCB and see if that makes it stay not lost for a reasonable time.

Brent

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