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Re: Has anyone built ICs using 99.999 dead soft silver ribbon wire???

Posted by Rob F (A) on March 5, 2003 at 14:07:11

In Reply to: Has anyone built ICs using 99.999 dead soft silver ribbon wire??? posted by Julien43 on March 5, 2003 at 06:36:12:

Hi,

I use the 3mm x .05mm ribbons from Vacuum State Electronics. VSE
recommends either wrapping the ribbons with teflon tape or alternatively using a teflon strip to space the ribbons.

Because I can't bear to do anything exactly as recommended, my interconnects are encased in teflon tubes. The trick is to buy 2.5mm
teflon tube, partially flatten it and feed the ribbon into the widened cross section. Do the same for the return leg. The teflon tube tries to return to its original shape i.e. round cross section
and in doing so grips each edge of the foil and holds it firmly in place. I then either wrap both tubes in an expandable outer sleve or wrap them in teflon tape to hold each channels conductors together.

There you have it silver foil interconnects with (mostly)air dialectric but which don't rattle. They sound exceptionally good.

Rob.

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