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A. Yes. Both Silver and TIN have tendency to corrode and tarnish where Gold is highly resistant to both. The TIN plated contacts we are dealing with had a designed cycle life of 10 removal / assemble operations while the Gold terminals we are using are rated for 100 operations and give far greater contact pressures than OEM.
