Post #3143471
2026-05-12 15:25 UTC
@n8foo@macaw.social ...until come repair time, when you have to undo it, and the find that a) someone put solder on it b) the wire has gone brittle, so you're left with fragments c) the other end is directly connected to a transformer winding, and you don't have enough cable to re-strip, but the "wrap" part is all bent and mangled from the first wrap and can't be reused.
Granted, one can unsolder the post rather than unwrap, but for maintainability and during diag, nothing beats a good header+connector.
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@klausman@mas.to 2026-05-12 15:27
@n8foo@macaw.social (cont'd) It is great for manufacture, in many ways, but I have cursed at many of the above situations where a header+plug would have saved me hours. And on one occasion, a wrapped wire was under so much repeated stress that it detached and sent 230V to the chassis, killing the device. [/end rant ;)]