A Blog on D-Type Connector Hoods
This week’s Blog, a guide to D-Type Connectors, is brought to you in association with MBS Components (http://www.mbs-components.com/) who are the UK’s leading connector & accessories distributor. If you are designing or making cable assemblies at some point you will have to decide which hood you are going to use. There are many options available […]
A Simple Guide to Mil Spec Connectors
If you work in Electrical / Electronic manufacturing you will at some point come in contact with Military Specification (Mil Spec) Connectors and, like many people, you probably find the wide variety of specifications and options confusing. Don’t worry you’re not alone, many people who have not had the specific training find mil spec connectors […]
A Blog on Heatproof cables
With a weekend of warm weather, and more to come, I was thinking about how cables react to different environments, specifically heat. If you are designing a product that will be exposed to fluctuating and extreme temperatures what cable should you use? There are many options and, depending on the specific application, one may be […]
A Guide to Super Flexible Cable
In most cable applications the choice of cable is simple – Screened, Unscreened. Multicore or Multipaired. Usually cables are fixed and do not move. However, what if your application requires contact movement? When you start to think about it, there are many applications where constant movement is required; from a cable attached to a Robot […]
TE Connectivity wins prestigious Desingcon award
And the awards just keep coming for TE Connectivity, with the latest award from Designcon for their STRADA Whisper connectors. Awarded ‘Best Interconnect Technologies & Components’ at Designcon 2013, it’s clear that there must be something in the STRADA series – so let’s take a closer look. According to TE The STRADA Whisper backplane family […]
A Blog on the future of interconnect technology
If, like me, you constantly think about the future and about what technological advances will come, you may find interconnection of particular interest. There have been many predictions of the future, including this video featuring Walter Cronkite in the 1967 show “The home office of 2001” http://youtu.be/V6DSu3IfRlo This may be comical to watch now, but there […]
A Guide to Insulated Ferrules
This week I am giving you a guide to insulated ferrules, one of the simplest crimp terminals with a choice of colours. These simple terminals are a great device for bare-end wire, eliminating the need to solder and enabling the user to insert the cable into terminal blocks and other similar terminations. Insulated ferrules were […]
A Blog on Molex Connect.com
Some time ago, when I originally reported on Molex launching connector.com I knew that they were on to an industry first – a real winner in terms of offering their customers a fantastic resource absolutely free of charge. In the volatile new economy information is an easy way to build a relationship with your customers, […]
A Blog on the future of interconnection
This week I am going to give you a window into the future! How about designing circuit board interconnections with a pen and paper… then testing to see if your design works from the page? Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive — or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools […]
IPC/WHMA-A-620 – Revision B has been released!
Being up-to-date in your profession is simply about being the best you can be at your job. In our profession we need to believe training isn’t too expensive and investment is a good thing. I love the analogy of the man who goes to see his doctor and asks about a problem, and the doctor […]
