This is not Good

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by George16

I am not questioning them. I'm just saying that the bullet was not true vertically when it was soldered to the board. The negative terminal is fine and has about 2mm of clearance. Since it is leaning towards the case, it is being push away from the case when I inserted the male connector. This could mean undue stress on the board to bullet connection.

Now this is questioning. Aren't you an engineer? If you are, then you should know what happens when there is stress being added into a connection or joint, be it mechanical or electrical :.

Everything is subject to some amount of loading (the proper term here, since we don't know the exact nature of this loading). Its not until that load is too large for the parts to react that your devils will come out.