Re: Recommendations for single row pin headers

From: Mike Stein <mhs.stein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 09:59:32 -0400
Message-ID: <CAHHfo1sSNx+1h7DxW_+cCurUw+Q3znWMtMQoxsbwFDd-RSs_Ag_at_mail.gmail.com>
I use the pins from transition connectors or DIP component carriers,
they're the same thickness as IC pins; insert through PC, solder and clip
off excess.

There are also the Batten and Allen edge-mount pins:
http://www.dasarodesigns.com/product/batten-and-allen-ba3760-dill-leadframe-dip-pcb-edge-clip-pins/


On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 8:30 AM Pasi Lassila <pasi.lassila_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> The long pin female headers I have used are thin enough not to destroy
> leaf spring IC sockets.
>
> -Pasi
>
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 15:22, Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se> wrote:
>
>> My impression is that any other kind of pins except those on a real IC
>> or those on the cheap budget sockets will ruin the holes in a budget
>> socket, and then the user can't remove your adapter without installing
>> for example a machined socket between the CIA and the existing budget
>> socket.
>>
>> If you have enough energy/time and are willing to do some nasty work
>> you can solder your PCB on to a cheap socket. Would most likely result
>> in fumes from the plastic and would need large solder blobs or
>> something like soldering in pin headers in the holes in that cheap
>> socket.
>>
>> P.S. for the A2000, A3000 and A4000 you could put the switch on the
>> floppy cable instead of in the CIA socket. In theory this could be done
>> on A1000, A500, A600 and A1200 too, but that would require connections
>> both to the internal and the external cable.
>>
>> If the idea is to hook up a Gotek and an internal drive to an A500, 600
>> or 1200 you could connect the adapter on the data cable (and power
>> cable) to the drive, and just use one of those spring loaded hook
>> clamps for the pin on the CIA that selects DF1. It will collide with
>> any external drive, but it would work without soldering even if the CIA
>> is soldered direct to the motherboard (were any Amigas shopped that
>> way?). The Gotek would need to be of some kind which can have it's user
>> interface passed through the vent holes on the top of the case, or
>> using the removable cover on the back if it's an A1200.
>>
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>>
Received on 2020-05-29 23:01:46

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