Abstract: An edge connector having an opening for receiving a printed circuit board and having two opposed rows of contact for making electrical contact with conductive pads on opposite sides of a printed circuit board inserted into the connector. The connector is designed with the objective that when the two rows of contacts are in their "at rest" positions, the various contacts in one row will be in engagement with corresponding contacts in the opposed row at a location inwardly of the outer ends of the contacts, thereby electrically shorting the contact ends. The contacts of the connector are designed so that when a leading edge of a printed circuit board is inserted into the slot between the two opposed rows of contacts, such contacts will make electrical contact with conductive pads on both sides of the board, and after such contact is made, further insertion of the board will cause the contacts to separate at the location they had been shorted thereby completing a circuit through the board.