Need Help Wiring? NASA Shows You The Right Way
By Eric Dykstra
NASA staffs its organization with engineers who are completely humorless on the subject of electronics workmanship. They’re responsible for some of the most complicated machines humanity has ever produced, costing billions of dollars, brimming with high explosives, and carrying human lives. So I suspect their standards are more than sufficient for a DIY car audio installation. Fortunately, NASA offers its Workmanship Standards Pictorial Reference for free to anyone who wants to know.
The reference offers a wide array of illustrations, from the correct use of a spade connector to high-end fiber-optic terminations. The guide shows simple examples of preferred, acceptable, and unacceptable ways of connecting electronics.
You can get every series of examples as PDFs or web pages. While some of the material is way out of most people’s league, you can’t beat it as a reference for the more common electrical connections that come up in a Toolmonger’s life.
NASA Workmanship Pictorial Reference [NASA.gov]
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February 11th, 2008 at 8:24 am
[...] Originally Posted by Toolmonger Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Need Help Wiring? NASA Shows You The Right Way NASA staffs its organization with engineers who are completely humorless on the subject of electronics workmanship. They’re responsible for some of the most complicated machines humanity has ever produced, costing billions of dollars, brimming with high explosives, and carrying human lives. So I suspect their standards are more than sufficient for a DIY car audio installation. Fortunately, NASA offers its Workmanship Standards Pictorial Reference for free to anyone who wants to know. The reference offers a wide array of illustrations, from the correct use of a spade connector to high-end fiber-optic terminations. The guide shows simple examples of preferred, acceptable, and unacceptable ways of connecting electronics. You can get every series of examples as PDFs or web pages. While some of the material is way out of most people’s league, you can’t beat it as a reference for the more common electrical connections that come up in a Toolmonger’s life. NASA’s wiring guide — only the most demanding geeks need apply - Engadget [...]
February 11th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
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February 12th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
[...] NASA has a “Workmanship” section of their site to “illustrate some of the reasons behind NASA’s workmanship and process requirements. The pictures contained in these pages are actual images of space flight hardware that failed during testing (primarily during vibration or thermal cycle environmental tests). The troubleshooting and repairs necessary to restore the hardware to flightworthy conditions are usually a substantial cost and schedule impact on the affected Programs”. Amazing stuff! - NASA Workmanship pictorial reference - [via Link & more. [...]
February 14th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
wait, do you need to go to each page and download and print it separately, or is there some link to download the entire thing that I haven’t found?
February 15th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Is there any way that I can download the full version of this?
February 15th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Ahh, I’ve referred to this site on multiple occasions, when trying to explain what solder-sleeves are! Good stuff.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
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