A while back I decided to plan for a multi-2 station with at least four
towers. Since I am only a year away from retirement and not looking forward
to a lot of tower/antenna maintenance in the future, I wanted to design the
wiring harnesses using the best cables and connectors. A search for
industrial connectors for the control cables yielded the type of information
you have described below, Will. Most of these have a price around $100
each, so one connection would be double that figure - much more than I am
willing to pay.
I did, however, find an industrial quality connector made by Bulgin, a
British firm. The 400 series Buccaneer line is what I chose. These likely
would not be used on military/aviation equipment, but seem fine for my
project. They are waterproof. Mouser sells the components and the total
price per connector is about $20. There are chassis/in-line and
in-line/in-line connectors, so there is plenty of flexibility for design.
I also found a high quality, screw-in DIN connector from Amphenol and use
some of these in the shack. These are also available from Mouser.
A photo of the Bulgin and Amphenol connectors can be seen here:
http://www.dutson.net/Transfer/HamRadio/Connectors/DSC00053ds.JPG
Here is a close-up of the Amphenol, showing components and assembled views:
http://www.dutson.net/Transfer/HamRadio/Connectors/DSC00054ds.JPG
Here is a close-up of the Bulgin components, chassis mount on left:
http://www.dutson.net/Transfer/HamRadio/Connectors/DSC00055ds.JPG
Last, here is a Bulgin assembled in-line connector:
http://www.dutson.net/Transfer/HamRadio/Connectors/DSC00056ds.JPG
73, Keith NM5G
-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Will Matney
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:21 AM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] [BULK] - DIN stands for....?
Mike,
Industrial connectors most used on equipment, including robotics, are either
Amp or Amphenol type round connectors. They're large in size but tough end
easy to use. The pins are either soldered or crimped on the wire outside the
plug or socket then inserted (on the AMP brand). There is a special cheap
tool used to extract the pins if need be. On Amphenol, you solder them on at
the plug similar to a din plug except these are 10X heavier built. Amp plugs
have black plastic high temp housings and Amphenol has a cast aluminum
housing generally in olive drab color for military use. The plastic
insulator in Amphenol plugs is a blue plastic. A round knockout punch of the
right size is all that's needed. You'll find these on a lot of US military
communications equipment. These are the toughest plug-socket assembleis I
know of, and can take any standard cable from type SO to microphone cable.
They also have cable size adapters and rubber tension relief boots. Several
places sell them from Mouser to Allied.
Best,
Will
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On 2/26/06 at 7:44 AM m.ford wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat@copper.net>
>To: "Steve Thompson" <g8gsq@eltac.co.uk>; <amps@contesting.com>
>Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 7:04 AM
>Subject: Re: [Amps] [BULK] - DIN stands for....?
>
>
>> On Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:00 AM [GMT+1=CET], Steve Thompson
>> <g8gsq@eltac.co.uk> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Personally, I like D types. OK - it's a pain making the panel hole,
>>> but even low cost ones are decent connectors. Pay a few pennies
>>> more, and you get something really nice.
>>>
>>> Steve
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Couldn't have said it better myself. D-sub is good if you want to
>> spend
>the
>> money for the punch. I haven't yet.
>>
>> 73, Bill W6WRT
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>
>
>Some of the mil stuff I've worked on used various D-sub connectors that
>incorporated a few coaxial pins in the array. I have not seen these on
>the civilian side.
>
>Perhaps the robotics guys have some interesting connectors.
>
>Mike k1ern
>
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