Hit the liked button, nice selection of goodies. Now your going to be having fun with spring probes and toggle clamps, made loads of ATE fixtures for boards with them over the years. Will be interesting to see your approach.
@@DustinWatts best to have a few holes in the PCB so that you can locate to pcb over the probes, the sides are not always in the same place, but the holes will be. also the clamps swing in in an arc which can move the pcb sidways which is not good for the probes. So i would normally place stops on the base to stop the pcb over compressing the probes, then you close the toggle clamps to limit the amount of the arc the pcb sees. In the ATE fixtures the clamps hold the PCB down and then a lever brings the probes up to meet the tracks or test points.
@@TheEmbeddedHobbyist I also have another clamp on the way, which just has a vertical movement. That would eliminate the arc movement. I think my jig will have a 3D printed base which will limit all possible motion to make sure there is a good connection and not over stress the PCB or pogo pins.
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Hit the liked button, nice selection of goodies. Now your going to be having fun with spring probes and toggle clamps, made loads of ATE fixtures for boards with them over the years. Will be interesting to see your approach.
I have an idea of about how I am going to approach it. I think it will involve some 3D printed spacer and an unpopulated board.
@@DustinWatts best to have a few holes in the PCB so that you can locate to pcb over the probes, the sides are not always in the same place, but the holes will be. also the clamps swing in in an arc which can move the pcb sidways which is not good for the probes. So i would normally place stops on the base to stop the pcb over compressing the probes, then you close the toggle clamps to limit the amount of the arc the pcb sees.
In the ATE fixtures the clamps hold the PCB down and then a lever brings the probes up to meet the tracks or test points.
@@TheEmbeddedHobbyist I also have another clamp on the way, which just has a vertical movement. That would eliminate the arc movement. I think my jig will have a 3D printed base which will limit all possible motion to make sure there is a good connection and not over stress the PCB or pogo pins.
you get these for free?
The post in this Postbag you mean? Nope... I paid for it.