Touch contact jack? (don't know the name)

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CVMichael

Joined Aug 3, 2007
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I am building a 3D printer, and I wanted an easy way to swap extruders.

I am looking for some kind of touch contact array jack thing... something to make it easy to swap extruders. I don't know the name, I don't know what to look for, so I am hoping for someone to give me some names, examples, if you know where to get it from? anything that might help

Something similar to this:
http://robosavvy.com/store/images/makerbot/replicator2014/MB05_PL_SmartExtruder_2.jpg

As you can see in the pic, the 2 vertical lines of contacts

Thanks!
 

philba

Joined Aug 17, 2017
959
I'm skeptical that you can get good results for the heater and stepper wires which will carry several amps. Why not use connectors like they use for the batteries in RC planes? That would stil be pretty fast to switch and they would carry the current just fine.
 

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CVMichael

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