Hello,
I am looking for a good way to mount a daughter board to a motherboard that can be hot swappable. I would like it to be able to mount securely preferably with mechanical clips or fixings.
There will be up to 10A to go through it for power as well as around 10 signal pins. Obviously I can use several pins to get the required current rating.
I have seen DIN 41612 connectors but I am concerned about the daughter board coming loose.
If anyone can help me it would be much appreciated 😊
Not my area of expertise, but these are my thoughts on the subject.
If you want mechanical clips on the connector assembly itself, you are probably going to want to stay away from mezzanine or back plane connectors. I usually associate these larger mechanical standards where the card itself has the mechanical fastening with screws, either to a chassis (backplane) or to the other board (mezzanine). You’ll probably find more luck with edge connectors, but that looks like another beast.
You also need to make sure you use something designed for multiple cycles if you plan on swapping frequently.
If I was looking for something I would just brows samtech, molex, or just digikey and filter until I find something that suites my needs.
For hot swap, you also have to make sure you have something that is designed for that, usually that means some longer pins on ground to make sure you’re not having any surges on data lines.
Yeah I’ll have a look on there and see what I can find. Also I didn’t really mean hot swappable just swappable I guess. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
Ermmm… If you use several pins to get the current rating, what happens if one of the pins fails or gets corroded? Won’t you risk generating heat? Think I’d prefer nice big connectors for the power and to keep the data lines safely segregated. Depends on your needs and design I suppose.
You get the same problem with big connectors. I have seen many large connectors corrode and melt as a result of the bad connection.
