terminal posts / connectors for deadbug

I usually mount the copperclad inside the lid of a 1590-style aluminum stomp box, held in by bulkhead-style BNC jacks.

For other connectors, I sometimes use regular sized D-sub connectors.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Working on copperclad, use a solid wire stub or drill and use 2-56 screws.

For the scew, remember that the back side is usually ground.

Banana jacks are cool, but more work.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

There was a solution to your problem - and I used to be able to find it on the Newark/Element-14 website - where you drilled a roughly 2mm OD hole in your sheet, and plugged in a circular lump of teflon carrying a solderable pin.

It could stand off a couple of kV and was great for setting up photomultiplier dynode chains.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

they also come in 2mm when you don't need or want such a large connector

A god bit bulkier than the part I had in mind. 4mm OD is twice the diameter and four times the area.

you can also get 2mm banana plugs/sockets

I want to use a hunky red-blooded manly stacking American banana plug.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Well, God is pretty big.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

...other colours are also available.

White and blue.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

It's worth buying the good stuff, HH Smith or Pomona. Most of the cheap Chinese banana plugs are terrible.

TV? Is there still TV?

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Since he's a product of human imagination, the sky's the limit, but the delusion dates back to a time before we had any idea of quite how big the universe is, or for that matter before we realised that the were galaxies beyond the one we live in, or that we lived in one.

If purpose is identifiable and repeatable, fly wires into a suitable plug/socket. Input , output, power, programming, display etc.

Test points are always present in dead bug legs.

RL

Are retroactive spelling corrections allowed?

Is the universe a product of our imagination too?

That would solve several cosmological problems. Nothing exists.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Ah, a solipsist.

Jeroen Belleman

Not a bit. I'm an engineer.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Nobody forbids them.

We can all see the night sky, but if you look at it carefully with a range of telescopes you can learn more than you can with the naked eye.

If you look at it carefully, and use your imagination to create hypotheses about what you are seeing, you can learn a lot more by testing those hypotheses - it's called the scientific method if you ever feel the urge to learn something about it (which seems unlikely to happen).

Tycho Brahe was a master of naked eye observation. Kepler understood the data Brahe had collected well enough to realise the planetary orbits were elliptical. Newton understood it even better, and used his imagination to hypothesise an inverse square law of gravitation. It took a lot more observations to make it necessary for Einstein to formulate special relativity, and Jan Panteltje still can't see the necessity.

That's what mathematicians call a trivial solution. It doesn't solve the problem, or win any arguments. From your point of view, nothing that isn't going to get you flattered matters, and nobody is going to be impressed by your grasp of cosmology.