Is there a good reason for a lot of electronics to be gold plated?
Thanks.
gold plated
Aug 16, 2006
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Low contact resistance, excellent corrosion resistance and excellent solderability. And it looks cool and high tech. ;-)
And it looks cool and high tech. ;-)
Well, of course. That's what the audiophools want. I think if the control buttons on a piece of audio equipment were gold plated, some audiophool would buy it on the grounds 'it must be better' ;)
Cheers
PeteS
And very low thermoelectric potentials, always a problem in precision measurements of very low voltages.
Cheers Chris
John Popelish wrote in news:SK2dneT0gb9b0n7ZnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@adelphia.com:
And they can charge a lot more for it. ;-)
oh, you mean like that monster wire that is 99.9999 OX free! and those gold connectors and gold caps! ..yeah...
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Gold has a lot of advantages. These are mostly because (A) it doesn't corrode easily and (B) it is a soft metal.
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c) it's a good electrical conductor
Not as good as copper.
Graham
And copper\'s not as good as silver, and silver\'s not as good as
pyrolytic graphite.
Those are good reasons for gold plating the _mating surfaces_ of connectors. There is no reason (good or bad!) to gold plate the outsides or other non-mating surfaces.
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Peter Bennett wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.supernews.com:
Sure, but it looks pretty in the impossible-to-open-without-destroying-it bags.
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