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Are you using Rugged, Miniaturized Connectors in your Electronic Designs?

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Rugged Miniaturized Connectors: Advancing Compact, Reliable Solutions for Harsh Environments.

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  • in reply to obones

    I do if necessary. Surprisingly perhaps, the small latching waterproof connectors used on cars these days are very good. I don't know where you get them from though. They make a nice change from bullet-and-tube and/or spade terminal types. I havn't seen a crimping tool for them...

  • in reply to obones

    Ah, I see that the title has been changed from "Are you specifying" to "Are you using", which indeed makes more sense to me.

  • in reply to obones

    It's what a designer does somewhere within the process - he or she tells the assembly teams what to use in order to make what has been designed, sometimes the colour of the finished product, etc. the resulting document is called a 'Specification', usually abbreviated to 'Spec'.

    There are lots of different specs for a device, they might include parameters associated with vibration testing, tests at high and low temperatures, ingress ratings, and of course the final Test Specification that might be witnessed by a representative of the customers' company. I remember being part of the crew who were testing a large electric motor - we'd hired a wicked piece of kit that generated a suitable power supply and then added all sorts of problems such as phase errors, dodgy sine-waves, sudden loss and sudden re-application of power, etc. When our motor stopped all by itself we expected the worst - but it was even worse than that. On close inspection we found that the cause was the test generator blowing up!

  • in reply to electronicbiker
    electronicbiker said:
    Surprisingly perhaps, the small latching waterproof connectors used on cars these days are very good.

      Are you referring to the Bosch connectors?