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GUIDE
The order the questions are worth asking in.
This is the sequence a board-connector project follows when it goes well, and the point at which each step becomes expensive to revisit.
- 1 · The joint
- What mates, and which half is fixed to the board
- 2 · The signal
- Speed, and the returns per signal
- 3 · The current
- Per contact, and how many are loaded at once
- 4 · The cycles
- Because that decides the plating, not the price
- 5 · The termination
- Mass-terminated or discrete, and which tool makes it
- 6 · The tooling
- Who owns the press setting and how it is controlled
- 7 · The screening
- Whether the shell bonds, and how that is measured
- 8 · The inspection
- Press depth and pull-out, on a defined sample
Why the order matters.
Each step constrains the next. Choosing a plating before the cycles is choosing a life for a joint nobody has counted, and choosing a connector before the returns is choosing an interface for a signal that has no path back.
Where projects usually go wrong.
Step one, treated as a footprint, and step six, left to the line. Both are cheap to settle and expensive to discover.