[Amps] [BULK] - DIN stands for....?

[Will Matney]

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 at copper.net>
>To: "Steve Thompson" <g8gsq at eltac.co.uk>; <amps at 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 at 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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