Hello all,
I have a small assembly with two PCBs forming a sandwich. There are rigid components that mount between the PCBs and keep them 17.5mm apart (these parts are bolted to the PCBs).
There are some through-hole resistors that are also mounted between the PCB sandwich (a resistor has one lead connected to each PCB).
At the moment there are plated through-holes for the resistors but I'm worried about stresses on the solder joints as the parts expand and contract with temperature. The resistor body is 10mm, so there is only a little of the lead to add a kink for stress relief.
The resistor leads are long enough that they could go through one unsoldered hole and be looped back through a plated hole and soldered there. The loop would allow a bit of springiness for stress relief.
Any better ways of doing this?
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A****min
Apr 03.2019, 09:23:19
It might matter for hot running power resistors but not for small signal devices.
One easy thing to do to help is to use a better solder which is more resistant to cracking.