PS Engineering supply crimp pins, but you can solder them if you want. Crimp tools have come down in price, think China, look eBay, Alibaba.
Simon
Quote PS Engineering supply crimp pins, but you can solder them if you want. Crimp tools have come down in price, think China, look eBay, Alibaba.
Simon
There is a reason that PS engineering supplies crimp connectors and this is because solder connections are less reliable and take longer to make.
For a cheap job soldering or using cheap crimping pliers may save a few $ but it builds in unreliability that is likely to cost $$$$$$ to fix.
So at the end of the day my $3k crimping pliers with all the correct attachments and the reliability they bring are likely to be less expensive than the trouble shooting a problem in an avionic rack.
There is an old Arab proverb that says “ cheap is not so cheap”
I was recently offered a PMA7000 with paperwork for free basically, but it looks like there is no way to replace the KMA24 in our TB-10 legally, CS-STAN CS-SC003d explicitly forbids automatic speech recognition which is the primary selling point of the PMA7000.
Looks like we’ll have to stick with the current one or eventually rewire and use a Garmin.
@slider, VOX (voice-activated intercom) and speech recognition in the audio panel are two totally different things: the former recognises the mere presence of voice, the latter recognises the command words you say (which is implemented in Garmin GMA350). PMA7000 has the former, the function excluded from CS-STAN is the latter.
That indeed makes things much easier, thanks for the clarification Anton! I which they would be a bit clearer here in regard to feature differentiation.
