| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1595.1 | Re-assure the customer there should be no problem.... | NETCAD::BATTERSBY | | Thu Oct 20 1994 12:28 | 12 |
| Most connector contacts used in the computer industry are some kind
of alloy of beryllium (sp?) copper with degrees of gold plating.
I personally don't think the customer should worry about the
material or plating of the RJ45 contacts in the cable connectors
or the mating connectors on the DECrepeater90T. They will work
just fine for a considerable length of time before he has to be
concerned with corrosion. A lot of DEC standard environmental
testing goes into our products over a wide range of temperature
and humidity. Try temperatures of 5-50 degrees C and relative
humidity of 10% to 95% (noncondensing).
Bob
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| 1595.2 | | NPSS::BRANAM | Steve, Network Product Support | Tue Oct 25 1994 15:50 | 4 |
| If the customer has some unusual concerns due to deployment in a corrosive
environment (such as around seawater or chemical plant), they should probably be
worried about corrosion for the entire unit, not just the connectors. If that's
the case, they should consider some environmental protection.
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| 1595.3 | Plum Island isn't a good place for a HUB.... :-) | NETCAD::BATTERSBY | | Tue Oct 25 1994 16:17 | 12 |
| Steve you're absolutely correct. What isn't indicated in the base
note is the specifics surrounding the why's for the customer expressing
this concern. Our products are very much for the most part designed
for an office & lab environment. The more that a customers environment
approaches some kind of corrosive environment such as a chemical plant
or something similar in nature, the more of a possibility of some
detrimental effect to connectors and the products as a whole. Within the
presumed context of the customer's environment being of an office or
computer lab environment, there should be no concern about corrosion.
Other environments less benign should be mitigated where ever possible.
Bob
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