Where can you purchase them with N type connectors?
Darrell
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On Aug 15, 2020, at 13:38, Dana Whitlow <k8yumdoober@...> wrote:
?SMA connectors (as opposed to 3.5 mm connectors) have extremely thin
walls and are therefore very intolerant of bending forces and/or overtightening.
Many are the times when I see someone stacking up several items on an
equipment-mounted SMA(f) connector. All it takes is a modest accidental
sideways tug on the cable connected to the free end of the stack, and that's
all she wrote. It's time for the equipment to go to the repair shop for connector
replacement, and for you the user to be without the use of the equipment for
perhaps a couple of weeks or more.
For this reason I strive to avoid test equipment with panel mounted SMA
connectors. While not cheap, N-to-SMA adapters are user replaceable in
a minute or so, and much less expensive than a trip to the repair facility.
When stuck with a unit that does use a panel mount SMA connector, I
fall back on plan B: use a flexible cable a few inches long between the
SMA on the panel and whatever is next in the chain.
Note that 3.5 mm connectors are more robust in this regard, although
not totally so. The use of air dielectric in the 3.5 mm connectors permits
maintenance of the desired impedance without resorting to such thin
walls and delicate thin "fingers" on the pin receptacle. Also. 3.5 mm
connectors mate well with SMAs, so one is not forced to immediately
abandon all his SMA goodies to take advantage of the 3.5 mm connectors'
benefits.
Dana
Darrell Carothers