Fun with Griplets!

[DavGoodlin]

Captian Moody, I recall unpacking those in 1981. Fantastic value and saw many back in about 3-5 years for the inevitable failure of GE's wave-soldering to fill the feed thru griplets.

The place I worked had a solder station and bench spot just for griplet service.
Since I was the junior tech, I always got this job. Our standard griplet service included etching the trace adjacent to the griplets and we never saw one back afterward.

AA-AB-AC was the most popular Griplet set as it was Porta-color evolution set and likely got bounced around more.

EC and PC was definectly the "Griplet Plus" I think we used to count them when done to make sure we got them all.

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Captian Moody, I recall unpacking those in 1981. Fantastic value and saw many back in about 3-5 years for the inevitable failure of GE's wave-soldering to fill the feed thru griplets.

The place I worked had a solder station and bench spot just for griplet service.
Since I was the junior tech, I always got this job. Our standard griplet service included etching the trace adjacent to the griplets and we never saw one back afterward.

AA-AB-AC was the most popular Griplet set as it was Porta-color evolution set and likely got bounced around more.

EC and PC was definectly the "Griplet Plus" I think we used to count them when done to make sure we got them all.

PC Chassis doesn't use griplets. GE used jumpers to connect across the top of the board. There are no copper runs on the top of the PC chassis boards like the AA-AB-AC and EC chassis.

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

PC Chassis doesn't use griplets. GE used jumpers to connect across the top of the board. There are no copper runs on the top of the PC chassis boards like the AA-AB-AC and EC chassis.

So that's why the console sets never did act up, just the vertical cap - trade secret.

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

So that's why the console sets never did act up, just the vertical cap - trade secret.

C621, 100uF/50V, replaced with a 100V cap for call-back prevention.