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RE: soldering over slot

Posted by unclestu (D) on March 26, 2014 at 12:30:58

In Reply to: RE: soldering over slot posted by Ubiquitous Biscuit on March 26, 2014 at 11:59:01:

I believe it is the mere fact that the brass slot narrows down to meet the two duplex contacts. As I said, I have tried soldering over a wire but then the junction of the slotted area and the main duplex contacts still necks down. In fact, I believe one reason why some of those audiophile duplexes sound so good is that they eliminate the slotted tab area and use one large continuous piece of contact material.

It doesn't hurt that copper is a better conductor than brass or solder either. I usually use a 12 gauge jumper, BTW, and stagger the incoming AC line to give a more equitable spread of the current (one lead to top duplex, one to bottom duplex)

YMMV of course

Edits: 03/26/14

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