Wanted: Miniature connector
Dear CS Forum:
I am looking for the smallest four-pin connector available for a signal/sensor connection to a food waste disposer. Ideally, the male part would be less than 0.150" square. This would mate with a female part (not size-critical) that would be attached to a PC board with right-angle pins and a locking mechanism. The connector will operate at 5 to 12 VDC, carrying a maximum current of 200 mA.
Bill Strutz
Staff engineer, In-Sink-Erator
Racine, WI
How to speak to a human
Dear CS Forum:
In those all-too-often situations as described in your “Editor’s View” in the December 2005 issue, “Old technology comes full circle,” this URL, paulenglish.com/ivr/, lists the shortcuts for hundreds of companies for “How to speak to a human” when confronted by annoying interactive voice response systems.
Since brass [and therefore lead] is so ubiquitous in the connector genre, I would have thought that your publication would have at least mentioned the true (and hidden) RoHS agenda-to freeze “foreign devils” out of the moribund technology product markets of Europe to protect their domestic nonviable industries and their noncompetitive labor situation.
Karl W. Schweickardt, Jr.
President, C-PRAM Systems
San Antonio, TX
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