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Newbie struggling with making edge connector

oldtech1000

Hi,

I am having trouble trying to make an edge connector in eagle.

I wish to make a PCB that plugs into a 20 pin edge connector, to make an extender board.

The board consists of only 20 tracks with a spacing of 0.1 inches. No components, just the tracks.

Have not been able to find anything in libraries,tried to modify other connectors but all appear to want me

to connect to other components (other than the tracks).

I am sure this is very easy for experience Eagle users but not obvious to a very New Newbie like me.

Thanks for your help

Regards

George

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  • Hi George!

     

    Would you like to view a helpful walkthrough?

     

    Very Compact

  • in reply to COMPACT

    Hi Compact,

    Very Interested in the walkthrough....Please post details

    Regards

    George

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  • in reply to oldtech1000

    George,

    Can you please give me some more information about the edge connector fingers?

    You've provided the spacing (100mil) but not the dimensions of the fingers.

    Are the fingers to be gold plated and do they have a semi circle fill on one end (or both) to look like a giant D (or elongated oval) shape?

    Does the board edge need to be chamfered as not to damage the host socket?.

    Since it is an extender board do you have information about the complementary socket?

    Is it a wire wrap socket that has its legs bent to shape or something else?

     

    FYI - S100 boards use 125mil spacing and use gold plated D connectors.

  • in reply to COMPACT

    Hi Compact,

    Sorry for the slow reply.

    I am trying to copy an existing  Tektronix extender board.

    Fingers are at both ends of the board. One end becomes the male and on the other end uses the same style fingers as pads to solder

    to the edge connectors .

    The fingers are 1.87mm (0.73 inches) wide and 10mm long and joined by thinner tracks going to the other end of the board.

    Fingers are rectangular in shape (i.e. DO NOT have a semicircle shape)

    The boards will not be gold plated (making them I)

    Not worried about chamfering at this stage.

    The sockets are a specials made for Tektronix (striped from old Tek scope), double sided, Connections are similar to wire wrap

    but wider, design to solder to the fingers.

    .Thanks for your help

    Regards

    George

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  • in reply to COMPACT

    Hi Compact,

    Sorry for the slow reply.

    I am trying to copy an existing  Tektronix extender board.

    Fingers are at both ends of the board. One end becomes the male and on the other end uses the same style fingers as pads to solder

    to the edge connectors .

    The fingers are 1.87mm (0.73 inches) wide and 10mm long and joined by thinner tracks going to the other end of the board.

    Fingers are rectangular in shape (i.e. DO NOT have a semicircle shape)

    The boards will not be gold plated (making them I)

    Not worried about chamfering at this stage.

    The sockets are a specials made for Tektronix (striped from old Tek scope), double sided, Connections are similar to wire wrap

    but wider, design to solder to the fingers.

    .Thanks for your help

    Regards

    George

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