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Gold plating for edge connectors

2014.12.19

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While working on our upcoming non-solder VFD kit we wanted to use a PCI-express connector to connect the tube with the PCB. When we were ready to send our design to a PCB fab house, there was a lot of new vocabulary (bevel, gold fingers) that we needed to understand fully.

In our search we found the following blog over at Eurocircuits: http://www.eurocircuits.com/blog/40-Gold-plating-for-edge-connectors