Tuesday 17 May 2016

connector - What's the name of this nice spring contact?


Ah, it is really a beauty isn't it (see picture below)? Around the package you see some spring contacts, really, really nice. I have some ESP8266MOD modules and like to use these spring contacts before soldering anything on the pins.




ic package with springs


What is/are the name of this/these contact(s)?





Update 04/12/2018:


@bitsmack came up with the idea that these springs could be test-loops and search on it and found this picture:


test-loops


He could be right!



Answer



I can't tell well enough from the image, but is there any chance they're these with a leg cut off? Are they about 2.7 mm dia.?


point


They're from Toby Electronics.


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