[Halld-tracking-hw] Signal hook-up cables.

[Fernando J. Barbosa]

Hi Curtis,

Is there enough space to use these terminators, considering the bend radius?

Best regards,
Fernando

Curtis A. Meyer wrote:
> Hi Everyone -
>
>     I have attached a picture of the coax connector we want to use to 
> connect the
> wires to the the transition board. While we do not have a rating from 
> the manufacturer,
> we tested this to 7500V (the maximum of our local supply) without a 
> problem. In fact,
> this was higher than the simple soldered connections.
>
>     We also believe that the use of these connectors will
>
> 1)  Reduce the time to manufacture the cables by quite a bit, thus saving
>      money there.
>
> 2) Reduce the time it takes to make the solder connections to the 
> transition
>     board, thus saving money there.
>
> 3) Provide a more robust connection to the transition board that could 
> actually
>     be unsoldered if we needed to.
>
> 4) Essentially protects most of the transition board region from 
> exposed high voltages
>     and sharp edges.
>
> 5) Allows us to have the two soldered pins either go down through the 
> top of the
>     transition board, or come up through the bottom. This will allow 
> us to make some
>     wires shorter than they would need to be other wise.
>
>     The cost of these parts is about 13k$, but we think that the above 
> savings and benefits
> will more than pay for this. Unless there are serious complaints, we 
> are going to order
> ~3700 of these this week. There is a six-week delivery on them.
>
>        Curtis
>
>
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