Packaging & Interconnects: Color-Coded Screws And Terminals Simplify Visual PC-Board Inspections

May 24, 2004
Designers can hasten visual checkouts of pc-board connections thanks to a full range of color-coded screws and pc-screw terminals. The Rainbow 9190 series is available in red (-2), black (-3), white (-4), blue (-5), green (-6), yellow (-7), and...

Designers can hasten visual checkouts of pc-board connections thanks to a full range of color-coded screws and pc-screw terminals. The Rainbow 9190 series is available in red (-2), black (-3), white (-4), blue (-5), green (-6), yellow (-7), and clear colors. Its combination drive heads come in 1/4-in. lengths with six to 32 threads. When used with the company's pc terminals, they cost less than pc-screw edge-type terminals. Pricing for the color-coded screws starts at $93 per thousand in bulk quantities through the company's global distribution network. Samples are available from the company or its distributors.

Keystone Electronics Corp.www.keyelco.com
(800) 221-5510

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Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.

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