[Phil Allison]

"RonSonic"

gold is the most oxygen resistant plating
available and is indispensable for audio
plug usage. there is nothing better.
silver is a better conductor and like copper
it oxidizes very rapidly.
silver tuns black when exposed to light and in
that blackened condition is a terrible conductor


Silver oxide is actually a very good conductor,


** But is in fact * NOT * found as a coating on silver at room temp.

The familiar black tarnish on silver is * silver sulphate * - and that
is
a good insulator at low voltages.

Ron is spreading one of the silliest usenet myths, derived from a
connector
web site & written by an utter ****wit.


** Lack of reply noted !!!!

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Now watch this cretin try squirm out of it ......




which is why silver is so often used on connectors.


** Silver plated connectors are in fact rare. Only used where the mating
pressure is huge and hence air is excluded - ie screw threaded types.

Silver IS used an alloy or a plating on other metals for switch contacts -
a totally different ball game.

Okay, Phil, silver ****ing alloy.

Better now?


** You are waaaay out of line again - asshole !

Switches and relay contacts are an * whole separate ball game * to
connectors.




The only advantage of gold is that it doesn't corrode,


** WRONG - gold plating has one very important advantage as a connecting
material.

It is so soft it flows and tends to cold weld to itself under light to
moderate pressure.

Combined with its immunity to corrosion, this makes it second only to
soldering an electrical connection.


At the thicknesses we're seeing on audio connectors, this is meaningless.
At the
pressures involved, it's downright silly.


** That is ** absolute garbage** !!!

The thinnest layer of gold behaves exactly this way.

That * IS * why it is used throughout professional electronics to plate low
usage connectors where small signals are involved.


neither does the more
common, more rugged and much less expensive nickel plating you usually
see
on jacks and plugs.


** Nickel plated connectors are only suitable for high insertion &
removal
situations.

Nickel is very hard, does not flow or cold weld and develops a surface
tarnish that insulates at low voltage if not cleaned off by surface
abrasion.


Tarnish isn't an issue in our application,


** Funny how YOU claimed that nickel does not tarnish.

Try reading you own damn post - asshole.



You really should look more carefully at what is being discussed before
spouting
off with insults and bad attitude.


** YOU posted absolute ******** - Ron.

Then you post brainless abuse when I point simple facts out.

What is your next trick next gonna be ?

Holding your breath till you face goes blue ???




......... Phil