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Herbert Ponting's 1907 photograph of "a fakir in Benares" (Varanasi, India) A Hindu Yogi on a bed of spikes, 1913. Less traditional settings, such as science centers, may use an electronic retractable bed of nails, where the user lies on a flat plastic bed with holes in it, and can then activate the machine to have nails rise up all at once.
Spring loaded pins are a component of the bed of nails tester. A bed of nails tester is a traditional electronic test fixture used for in-circuit testing.It has pins inserted into holes in an epoxy phenolic glass cloth laminated sheet (G-10) which are aligned using tooling pins to make contact with test points on a printed circuit board and are also connected to a measuring unit by wires.
A common form of in-circuit testing uses a bed-of-nails tester.This is a fixture that uses an array of spring-loaded pins known as "pogo pins". When a printed circuit board is aligned with and pressed down onto the bed-of-nails tester, the pins make electrical contact with locations on the circuit board, allowing them to be used as test points for in-circuit testing.
A lineman's handset typically connects via a pair of test leads, not the modular connector found on most consumer telephone equipment. The test leads will feature some combination of alligator clips (to connect to bare wires), a piercing spike or "bed-of-nails" (for insulated wires), and something designed to fit a punch block.
The bed of nails was a concept that was intended to counter contact-fused weapons. It consisted of a field of conventional steel rebars each 2 metres (7 ft) long and driven into the ground about 0.6 metres (2 ft). They were arranged in lines with the bars 1 metre (3 ft) apart in a row about 600 metres (2,000 ft) long. 150 such rows were ...
Nail bed may refer to: Nail bed (anatomy), the skin beneath the nail plate; Bed of nails, a device sometimes used in meditation and physics demonstrations; Bed of nails tester, a device used to test printed circuit boards
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A bed of nails is a board with nails pointing out of it, as lain on by fakirs and ascetics. Bed of nails may also refer to: "Bed of Nails" (song), a 1989 single by American rock singer Alice Cooper "Bed of Nails", a song by Hüsker Dü from their 1987 album Warehouse: Songs and Stories; Bed of Nails, a 2003 novel by Canadian author Michael Slade