<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Evaluating Polymer Capacitors - Pogo Pin Fixture</title><link>/challenges-projects/design-challenges/polymer-capacitors/b/blog/posts/evaluating-polymer-capacitors---pogo-pin-fixture</link><description>The surface mount (SMD) capacitors used in this challenge are difficult to connect to instrumentation without soldering them into a test circuit. To facilitate some of my scope and pulse generator measurements I made a simple test fixture that ...</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Evaluating Polymer Capacitors - Pogo Pin Fixture</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/polymer-capacitors/b/blog/posts/evaluating-polymer-capacitors---pogo-pin-fixture</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 16:05:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:44145650-204f-4180-84f9-c99229ffa681</guid><dc:creator>shabaz</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Ralph,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#39;s a nice test jig, great idea with the pogo pins!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was trying something this weekend cutting bits of copper, to connect to MLCC and tant, but it failed miserably : )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good luck with the testing!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7117&amp;AppID=229&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Evaluating Polymer Capacitors - Pogo Pin Fixture</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/polymer-capacitors/b/blog/posts/evaluating-polymer-capacitors---pogo-pin-fixture</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 13:48:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:44145650-204f-4180-84f9-c99229ffa681</guid><dc:creator>jw0752</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Ralph,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Necessity is the mother of invention. I like your build to solve the connection problem. Thanks for sharing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7117&amp;AppID=229&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Evaluating Polymer Capacitors - Pogo Pin Fixture</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/polymer-capacitors/b/blog/posts/evaluating-polymer-capacitors---pogo-pin-fixture</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 00:33:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:44145650-204f-4180-84f9-c99229ffa681</guid><dc:creator>fmilburn</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Ralph,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really like your solution for holding SMD capacitors down for testing with pogo pins.&amp;nbsp; It makes the method I used look pretty crude :-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7117&amp;AppID=229&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>