wire wrap

Wire wrap is a technology used to assemble electronics.

Wire wrap is one of the most repairable systems for assembling electronics.

For example, it used wire wrap boards and few, if any, soldered connections.

Wire wrap construction became popular around 1960 in circuit board manufacturing, and use has now sharply declined.

A manual wire wrap tool resembles a small pen.

Manual wire wrap methods are then used to connect the components into an operable circuit.

For prototypes, or small production runs, wire wrap or turret board can be more efficient.

They were connected via wire wrap, and the wiring was then embedded in cast epoxy plastic.

Translation cross connect fields such as these were among the first to be converted from soldered terminals to wire wrap.

Slightly larger jobs are done with a manual "wire wrap gun" having a geared and spring-loaded squeeze grip to spin the bit rapidly.

Alternatives to PCBs include wire wrap and point-to-point construction.

Computer CER-12 consisted of multiple modules connected via wire wrap and connectors.

It used wire wrap circuit boards whose only logic elements were three-input NOR gates.

The cards were plugged into a card-cage back-plane and edge connector contacts connected to wire wrap pins.

Since each pad is electrically isolated, the builder makes all connections with either wire wrap or miniature point to point wiring techniques.

Wire wrap was used for assembly of high frequency prototypes and small production runs, including gigahertz microwave circuits and super computers.

In telecommunications wire wrap is in common high volume use in modern communications networks for cross connects between copper wiring plant.

For high density prototyping, especially of digital circuits, wire wrap is faster and more reliable than Stripboard for experienced personnel.

Cyanoacrylates are used to assemble prototype electronics (see wire wrap), flying model aircraft, and as retention dressings for nuts and bolts.

Wire wrap is popular in telecommunications since it is one of the most secure ways to attach wires, and provides excellent and consistent data layer contact.

Alternative methods to create prototypes are point-to-point construction, reminiscent of the original breadboards, wire wrap, wiring pencil, and boards like the stripboard.

The Apollo Guidance Computer with its short production run and stringent reliability requirement was one of the early applications of wire wrap to computer assembly.

The hook can be used for pulling bridge clips from 66 blocks, manipulating wires in a crowded wire wrap block, or setting DIP switches.

This wire was developed initially for circuit assembly by the wire wrap technique but also serves well for miniature point-to-point wiring on perfboard.

The shallow desk pedestal held three racks or rows of cards, with 25 cards per row, and a wire wrap backplane connecting all cards.