_jmfr
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What do you guys think? The only new ones i've tried were from Jammaboards. The quality is ok, just wonderin what my other options are. Also, what kind of wire ties do yall use?
Thanks,
Jason
Thanks,
Jason
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Bob Roberts makes them. They are not pretty or cheap (he builds each one with a fingerboard, wires, and solder), but they get the job done, better than the mass-produced ones according to Bob (better current flow).
http://www.therealbobroberts.net/adaptors.html
Bob is full of shit.
yea sorry but current flow is not an issue here at all.
but the long term failure rate on wires with solder is much higher than a made pcb board adapter.
Bob is full of shit. If there was any validity to his claims, then the adapter would heat up as you ran the board and you'd eventually burn out the traces. I've never seen a PCB-based adapter with burned out traces. Iif there's a short on the board, there's usually a trace on the board that'll burn out long before the ones on the adapters.)
If you're really *that* concerned about the power traces on a PCB-based adapters, you can always add more wires.
but you have to just laught at the "current flow" of wires vs pcb adapters.
To maxrecoil:
and solder joint is a point of weakness/failure in comparions to a trace with no breaks.
for example: take coaxial cable
10 foot long single piece vs Five 2 foot long pieces with appropriate connectors
you will have 4 points of possible failure (one at each connector) as you will with solder
and as for any long term data, no i have conduced a research study yet. lol
but we have a whole hell of alot of repairs on cold solder joints and bad pins poor soldering jobs ect ect. (alll having to do with points of poss failure)
Thicker gauge wires have a lower impedance than thinner gauge wires (or lighter traces), all else being equal, therefore, you can adjust the gauge for whatever current flow you need. Additionally, the distance that the electricity has to travel on the traces alone (before and after it travels on the wires) is shorter than if the adapter was made from traces alone. A shorter distance for electricity to travel = lower impedance as well; all else being equal.
On which of Bob's points do you specifically disagree with?
That's speculation, unless you have some long-term test results to present.
After doing that I measured the +5V at the board and it was .2V higher than with the old setup, so I backed it off on the power supply's +5V pot until it measured at its previous level. If nothing else, the power supply gets a slightly easier life out of the improved current flow.
The fact that the contact resistance of the connectors involved FAR swamps any difference in impedance of the wiring on either kind of adapter.
The fact that his adapters have 3 solder joints per wire vs. 2 solder joints in an PCB-based adapter, or one that's wired point-to-point from edge connector to a single-sided fingerboard. (And the solder joints have a much higher impedance than wires or traces).