Product
Ribbon IDC
The press depth, because one operation makes every joint
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BOARD CONNECTORS / FICTIONAL RANGE
A footprint is not an interface.
PINNACLE is a fictional board-connector range covering ribbon IDC parts, pin headers and shielded backshells. The site is organised around the connection rather than the footprint: two parts that mate mechanically can still differ in plating, in return path and in how they were terminated.
Three parts, three ways a connection fails.
Each part in this range fails somewhere that is not visible from outside, and each failure is decided before the order.
Product
Pin header
The plating, because that is what wears across mating cycles
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Shielded backshell
The bond, because a shield that is not connected screens nothing
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Four things that belong to the assembly rather than to the component.
- The tool
- Because a mass-terminated joint is qualified by the press that made it
- The return path
- Because a signal without a return is a loop
- The cycles
- Because they decide the plating rather than the price
- The bond
- Because screening is a resistance figure, not a feature