Re: CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE

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Original poster: "BRIAN FOLEY" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi, i have worked with the silver pcb repair materials, they work great,
come in silver and gold compounds, both very expensive, and both have very
short shelf life for good performance. cul brian f.
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:02 PM
Subject: CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE


> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> The ad says its for low voltage, but I'd
> love to try some of that out on a high
> voltage, to see how high it'll go before
> it takes a dive. :)   Perhaps they've
> just not tested it on anything "high"
> before... could be a handy coiling
> accessory, if it can hold up... maybe
> go so far as to sculpt a toroid from it."
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>     Voltage has nothing to do with it.  Conductive adhesives don't
> have as high a conductance as solder but are useful where heating
> isn't practical or where heating will destroy the objects to be connected.
> The stuff I'm familiar with is silver loaded epoxy and produces about
> 0.1 ohm connection resistance when joining a pair of #20 wires with a
> lap of about a quarter inch.  Just a test piece, not actual usage.
>      Note the price of the stuff and think several times about buying
> it for anything other than specialty applications.  Newark (and
> probably Mouser and DigiKey and all the rest) sell similar materials.
>
> Ed
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