Looking for a specific connector

google "bed of nails" eg

martin

Although I haven't seen full clamps manufactured for this kind of thing, pogo pins such as those found at

Vendors such as AQL Manufacturing Co. (9755 SW Commerce Circle Wilsonville, OR 97070 - local to our company) can supply pins and pin assemblies. They make many of the test fixtures for our test engineers, I understand.

Martin,

Thanks for the idea. That is a possibility. Given I'll need a test jig of some sort this could work.

In my mind, I was looking for something to go onto the end of a cable (like a connector).

Cheers,

James.

or get a Molex catalog from your disti rw

Some years ago, there were "low insertion force" and "zero-insertion force" connectors, that they'd use in stuff like EPROM programmers. There also used to be a thing called a "DIP plug" that got crimped onto the end of a piece of ribbon cable, which you'd then plug into an IC socket.

I probably wouldn't want to populate a board with a ZIF socket if it was only for one-time use. If you can't afford the time to plug in an ordinary IDC plug, then a bed-of-nails is probably your best bet. You could take a look at AMP MODU, if they still make such things.

Good Luck! Rich

see the SNAP series at

. Take a look at

Jim

I use a simple 8-pin IC test clip for PIC ICSP. Epoxy and hard-wire a 1x6 header to the clip. One additional bonus is not having to route the programming lines. It works fine provided you have clearance for the clip.