Where to Use Gold Connectors

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Where to Use Gold Connectors
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If you happen to deal with any type of industrial
equipment that have any form of hermetic
connectors, you should always ensure that gold
plated connectors are used this is especially
true when your equipment will be used in humid or
dirty environment. We all know that gold is a
great material because of its properties such as
non-corrosiveness. Apart from being rare and
expensive, gold is also to be a bit soft and will
not stand repeated mating cycles like other
metals would. However, when gold plated
connectors are taken through an electrical
connector metal finishing process they cannot be
easily moved.
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When you are out shopping for hermetic
connectors, you are likely to notice that when it
comes to industrial equipment engineers will
almost always order for gold plated connectors in
pairs. Every self-respecting engineer will know
better than to ask for gold plated connectors on
one side and nickel plated connectors on the
other side this is normally a case of wasted
resources.
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Gold plated connectors may cost about three times
what you would pay for nickel plated connectors
but the trouble with these mismatched pairs is
that the nickel side will almost always corrode
faster than the gold plated side leading to the
failure of the connector.
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These days, you can even be able to buy a guitar
and signal cables that have gold plated
connectors which simply look great. Apart from
the looks, the gold will ensure that they will
simply never corrode until perhaps such a time as
when the gold eventually wears off. However, you
must make sure that you dont plug the gold
plated connector cables into a cheap jack or you
will still end up with the same problem.
Electroless nickel connectors will almost always
be found in newer guitars as opposed to the older
versions the older ones may have had nickel
plated connectors or brass that easily wears off.
If you are investing in gold plated connectors,
invest a few more bucks and have your guitar tech
install a gold plated.
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The same case applies to amplifiers you only
need to peer into the chassis of any old
amplifier and you can be sure that you will not
see any gold. Stereo amplifiers of the days gone
by may be worse especially because they may have
been designed to minimize costs. In most cases
you will the nickel plated connectors outside
with some gold flashing on the outside but that
is as far as it can go. If you are looking for
equipment that will last for as long as you can
imagine, you must ensure that you always go for
that which has gold plated connectors all the
time.