We're designing a portable instrument with an embedded computer. It's a computer that gets very hungry for power sometimes, and needs to be powered by batteries at times. We're stuck using off-the-shelf UN38.3 certified batteries at the moment. 18.5V ("5s" or 5-in-series for li-ion cells) is the...
We have a rotational scanner which uses a v-belt drive (2L size v-belt, 0.25in wide), and we're getting slippage on the drive sheave. The current design is at maximum tension, although we can modify the design to increase the tension on the belt. Before modifying the geometry of the tension...
I've been designing some enclosures over the past few years and have thus far avoided jacks that have the metal spring-tabs on the sides of connectors, preferring plastic ones for a flush finished look.
I'm now presented with a part that has these metal spring tabs and I'm told this is the part...
