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Post #4 by Trash80toHP_Mini
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 1 Oct 2012 - 05:30
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/pds-angle-adapter.26292/
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I see what you're getting at now, not bad at all* though I'm not sure how well soldering would go without the soldertals extending to make contact with the tip.

One fly in the mud . . .

. . . even cutting the PCB back to the bare minimum so as to just barely allow room for the outboard row of pins for your RA Male connector, you're talking about .95" of assembly width and more like 1.05" from the surface of the adapted card as shown.

Try swapping the connector configurations, put a straight up Male Connector on a Verticallly oriented PCB, with the Right (Left?) Angle Female Connector mounted to that vertical PCB. It's late and you've just made me cross-eyed, but I think that'll get your lateral clearance requirement down to something on the order of .75" and dispense with the need to have your soldertails buried down into the PCB by increasing the vertical offset a bit.

Let me know if that crosses your eyes up as well. :lol:

* obligatory Independence Day reference. [:o)] ]'>

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