Keeping the body size down is one aspect but probably secondary to the
reliability engineer's direction to use soldered connections whenever possible
and practical. Cables and internal plug-in sockets don't cut the mustard from
a reliability standpoint. It will be cheaper to replace the fewer complete
assemblies that fail than the greater number of sub-assembly/component failures
that would occur. No need to look for nefarious intent.
Chuck Norcutt
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Re: That slow list again
> Sent: Jan 27 '08 19:05
>
> John Hermanson wrote:
> > This is how Olympus factory Service can stick it to outside repair
> > shops. Some of the cameras are designed with the card slots mounted to
> > the board, slot parts not available separately. Sometimes they are and
> > can be found in models of other manufacturers.
>
> Could this also be to keep body size down, though? The amount of room
> taken up by a card reader mounted directly on the board will be a lot
> smaller than card reader -> socket -> connector -> cable -> connector ->
> socket on the board, though the intermediate cable makes things much
> easier to repair -- even just mounting the card reader on a socket
> directly on the board still requires more room because of the extra
> connectors.
>
> -- dan
>
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