[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: can someone name that PCB component?

[Kelledin]

On Friday 26 November 2004 05:17 pm, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> If it's what I "think" you mean, I've usually heard them
> called a pad or 'test pad'.
>
> Can you point us at a photo?

"Test pad" sounds about right--but sadly, I've no photo. :(  If I 
had a digital camera, I could get a photo; I've got a Trenton 
ISA/PCI backplane with a bunch of the little buggers stuck 
between the last two ISA slots.

Basically they're about 2mm square, they look like they've got a 
brass or goldplate contact surface, and they're shaped just 
right to catch the tip of a probe in the middle.

Oddly, even now that I have a possible idea what they're called, 
I'm still unable to track any down.  I can't seem to find such 
beasts on Jameco, Digikey, or eBay. :/

/me == teh annoyed

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Kelledin
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