@jaseg I mentioned the Würth SKEDD connectors to the person too and they are correct that they don't support as many insertion cycles and that the footprint is bigger but that doesn't matter for some applications, one can also use them long term in the device itself.
Part of the high cost seems to be that the pins are manufactured in the US and shipped to Japan where the rest is assembled if I recall the conversation correctly.
Nov 11, 2026, 1:55 PM@transistor yeah it’s just a really hard to manufacture design, I get why they are that expensive. That’s why I think they should have come up with something that’s designed for easier manufacturing, reducing the cost.
The insertion cycles don’t really matter to me. I’m much more likely to loose or accidentally break a debug tool like this than to wear it all the way down. I think the insertion cycle spec of SKEDD is limited by the PCB, not the connector.
Nov 11, 2026, 1:56 PM@transistor I think the big disadvantage of SKEDD isn’t so much its size as the fact that it requires rather large through holes for each pin, which limits routing space underneath.