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BEC plug spacing on APM not wide enough #560

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. The new BEC 3-wire connectors on a Turnigy AE-20A are about 2.75mm or .109" 
thick versus the APM 2.5 board, designed at 2.5mm or 0.098 inche pin spacing.
2. Eight of the Turnigy connectors will not fit into the APM BEC output pins.  
If I shave 3 connectors down, they fit but put stress on the APM board pins.
3. I can replace the BEC connectors, but that isn't easy when you have eight 
BEC's connectors to convert (and I should do that as the stress isn't good). 

I'm concerned that with oct and hex, the problem might not be as noticable but 
the stress is still there.  Can the next board BEC connects allow for a 
slightly more spaced BEC pins to allow for the slightly thicker BEC connectors?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by forrestf...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2013 at 7:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Closing all issues on the old issues list by marking them WontFix.

If this is still a valid issue please re-raise it on the new GitHub issues 
list: https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot/issues

Thanks!

Original comment by rmackay...@gmail.com on 21 Jul 2013 at 2:14