8/S Replica

[Peter C. Wallace]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
>
>> Another option is PCIExpress 1X connectors, They are cheap and more rugged 
>> than CF sockets, and 36 pins!
>
> Now that's an interesting idea.  Digikey even has them fairly cheap,
> which gets to be important if you order them 400 at a time :-).
>
> The only problem I see with it is that it is an edge connector,
> which may mean you want to spring for hard gold on the contact
> fingers, which about doubles the PCB costs for the modules.
>

Probably cheaper/board than the female part of CF socket...
Even with gold, 2 or 4 layer PCBs this size should be less than $2.00 each




>   Vince

Peter Wallace