Re: Grrrrrrr
From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com)
Date: 02/01/05
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:11:45 -0800
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:00:34 -0600, Rob Gaddi
<rgaddi@bcm.YUMMYSPAMtmc.edu> wrote:
>Ken Smith wrote:
>> In article <jdmtv01pabotlrg6l2bio050eejeehsh6m@4ax.com>,
>> John Larkin <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:
>>
>>>The AMP web site is absolutely, totally, stupidly useless. If you
>>>don't already know the part number of what you want, you'll never find
>>>it.
>>
>>
>> I still have the big thick blue book from AMP. Other than that, give up
>> on trying to spec and AMP connector. There web site used to be merely
>> bad. Now it is beyond the scope of what there are words for.
>>
>> Amphenol's web site is better. (but then how can it be worse) I have the
>> local ITT cannon dist. showing up on Friday.
>>
>> Samtec is the only connector company that want to sell you connectors.
>>
>>
>I was on Molex's site last week poking around for a while, and while
>still not pleasant, at least it's moving in the right direction. Now if
>you ask real nicely they'll tell you at least the first couple digits of
>the mating part number.
>
>Conversely, between AMP's entirely arcane part numbering system and the
>lack of a usable website, even if you can find the absolutely perfect
>one half of a connection, you will never ever ever find the other. AMP
>has made me want to use card edge connectors purely to avoid having to
>hunt down the matching part.
2-part DINs are great, and lots of people make them.
John
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