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

[Vladislav Razmyslovich]

Hi Curtis,

I have checked the possibility of soldering Signal hook-up cables to the 
transition boards, and found some problems. At first, after an attaching 
the terminator to the cable, we will get the rigid end with length equal 
1" or so.  Plus an additional length for bending part of cable. Finally 
we will get 1.25"-1.30" length that can not accommodate easily in a row 
of places - see attached files. Unfortunately, we have a lot of places 
on a CDC HV boards layout where the space between neighbour transition 
boards egual .31" - .39" min. Based on that, I guess the soldering 
process will be  extremely hard, and  for some places will be 
impossible. Due these problems the your's previous version looks more 
preferable. Or we should search an another solution. Maybe my opinion is 
not fully correct, but an additional checking this issue by you and your 
team will be important.

Thanks and best regards,

Slava

On 4/20/2011 10:06 AM, Curtis A. Meyer wrote:
> That appears to be ok based on our initial tests. Also, being able to
> come up from the
> bottom of the board can help.
>
>      Curtis
> On 4/20/11 10:00 AM, Fernando J. Barbosa wrote:
>> 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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