I can't believe someone makes... 24 carat gold plated fuses

[bernardgreen]

But yes they do...........

Yet another Made by Monkeys classic from the Electronics Weekly web site

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/bl...s/2009/11/i-cant-believe-someone-makes-2.html

 

[ricicle]

Ok as long as the fuse - holder contacts are gold plated as well

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I think that the people posting to that blog have got it the wrong way round:

"Great Ideas, Bad Execution"?

Those fuses look like they are well executed, but they are a stupid idea - surely the complete opposite of the blog's theme?

 

[electronicsuk]

And I thought our old mate Russ Andrews was having a laugh with his DeoxIt spray. These sort of products have been the source of many a heated debate with one of my work colleagues, who is a complete HiFi buff.

 

[olly_k]

Oh I love hifi snake oil

Love to know what that spray is - possibly brasso mixed with wd40 and some sort of technical smelling aroma

It really is BS I have tried not so good looking interconnects with gold plated there is no difference and a scope would show this - Recording studios while using balanced lines they certainly don't use OFC and gold plated stuff afaik - it is all BS!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

These sort of products have been the source of many a heated debate with one of my work colleagues, who is a complete HiFi buff.

You should not enter into a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

 

[plugwash]

there is no difference

Probablly not with most audio connectors, it does vary with how aggressive the connector is though (edge connectors pretty much have to be gold plated if you want them to work reliablly)

and a scope would show this

Bear in mind that DSOs usually only have 8 bit resoloution and analog scopes aren't going to show differences that small either. Scopes are usefull but you should understand thier limitations.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

(edge connectors pretty much have to be gold plated if you want them to work reliablly)

Edge connectors have no place in domestic hi-fi equipment.

Actually, I'm not sure they have a place in anything of any quality.

 

[Magic Man]

Edge connectors have no place in domestic hi-fi equipment.

Actually, I'm not sure they have a place in anything of any quality.

Ahh, the fond memories of my Spectrum and a joystick interface hanging off its edge connector...

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Sinclair Spectrum.

I did say "I'm not sure they have a place in anything of any quality"...

And even leaving aside any discussion of Spectrum quality, what bandwidth did the edge connector have to support, and what MTBF did it have to exhibit?

 

[Magic Man]

I had a 3.5 disk drive unit plugged into mine - actually, given that the drive cost more than the Spectrum and actually powered it through the edge connector, it was more a case of the Spectrum being plugged into it.

...had a multiface plugged into it's own edge connector!

Edge connector on the side of my Amiga 500 as well. Had a 110MB hard drive and 8MB cache plugged in.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

"I had... I had... I had..."

I had a car once, and the engine management system comprised a spring in the distributor and a manual control which adjusted the fuel:air ratio when starting.

Times change.

 

[mlse]

I can't believe it's not butter!

 

[plugwash]

PCs (from the cheapest ****tiest ones to the top end workstation/server machines) make heavy use of edge connectors and have done for many years. Occasionally you get contact problems but in my experiences it's pretty low on the list of problem sources.

 

[Stoday]

RAM modules have not been made other than using edge connectors for two decades.