Whenever you read about applications for connectors you hear about markets, end products, and possibly the specific tasks of this connector within an end product. Since more than 80 percent of all connector applications are in conjunction...
Molex followed the The University of Michigan Solar Car Team on their journey through building a championship solar car. Follow them all summer long with us to see how they built the car and the challenges that they faced in building a ch...
In most cases, application of a connector has to do with soldering (except crimp and IDT connections). That is why one of the first questions I ask, when it comes to the connector choice is: What does your solder process look like? The answer to this...
As data-transmission speeds continue rising, design engineers are tasked with delivering scalable systems to ease the transition from 10Gbps speeds to 25Gbps. The proliferation of high-speed and broadband systems in telecom, datacom...
Being someone who all through their life has been interested in all electronic devices and especially audio / visual equipment, please try and understand how strange it now feels to walk into a major electrical / electronic re...
Not long after I started my current Molex assignment of developing new power connectors, I asked a customer about the airflow environment around a connector. His first reaction was to say “Never you mind about airflow, that’s my safety ne...
Some of you may think I changed my mind and decided to blog about old rock bands, AC-DC being one of my favorite old time rock bands. But not the case! As more power is consumed in our digital world there is more talk of delivering higher volta...
I Squared What?It’s the new popular color in the electronics world. GREEN! Everyone, everything, everywhere is better when green.I²R losses is the general term to denote inefficiencies in power transfer and conversion. And since there are more comput...
When I first got involved in Power connectors, one of the first things I noticed was there were a lot of “hybrid” connectors. Meaning a single connector had both power and signal contacts. At first I panicked. Omigosh, I thought. I am not only going ...
