Expansion Bay connector durability

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Somewhat dead post, but the connectors deep dive post does talk about the difference between the FXBeam connector and the connector Framework is using.

We then worked closely with Neoconix to build our own customized version of FXBeam (on the right in the image) that is compatible with the same Mainboard interface, but is substantially more robust.

However, Framework fails to mention the rated cycle life of these connectors, only stating that “the interposer is safe for handling and repeated cycling”. Whereas on the input module, they specified “They are rated to 10,000 cycles and are difficult to damage even if you try to.” So it is probably safe to assume they either do not have a good estimate of the cycle life of the custom FXBeam or it is not a number that is high enough that they would like to share it publicly? At least not as impressive as “10,000” certainly. Still would be nice if they could provide more information on that.

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Framework might not yet have final numbers, but have enough data to tell that it’s good for how they intend for it to be used. Understandably, they may not want to release preliminary numbers, as people may repeat it and fail to note that it’s preliminary, that the true cycle numbers might be much higher.

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did framework release a cycle number for the connector yet?

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