On Friday, 26 January 2018 15:52:00 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/01/18 15:20, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 15:03:35 UTC, wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 14:43:46 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 14:19:12 UTC, tabby wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 11:59:56 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 11:01:27 UTC, Fredxx wrote:

Most gold plating is a very thin layer,

Yes it's amazing how cheap gold foil can be having brought some gold foil that I'm trying to stick to an electroscope !!!!

electroplating is many times thinner

Yes so should be even cheaper, as gold is used to eliminate tarnishing of the connector a very thin layer is easily scratched so may not be much use long term. So a good quality lead should have a reasonable thick gold layer but I;ve no idea how much extar such a lead would cost but I wouldn't have thought more than a couple of quid worth of gold.

ie you don't know.

I know I don't know, that's the advantage in that I wouldn't pay an extar £100 for gold plated leads a couple of quid for me would proabbly be worth it.

gold has value on low analogue signal pins: it has virtually none on
digital signals

but I brought gold plated HDMI cable it's was about 50p more than one that wasn't.