[TowerTalk] Parallel Connections

[jimlux]

On 1/1/20 7:34 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 1/1/2020 6:22 PM, Stan Stockton wrote:
>> The green colored "Phoenix type" pluggable terminal blocks like the 
>> ones used on  Green Heron bases and other products are what I would 
>> like to use.
> 
> Yes. The pro audio world fell in love with them almost 25 years ago.
> 

And industrial automation. Pretty much everything in the last 20-30 
years has come with that kind of termination, whether plug/socket, or 
just soldered in terminal strip.

Easy to install and high performance - strip the wire back a bit, stick 
it in the hole, torque the screw, and the little corrugated clamp grabs 
the wire with a gas tight seal.

Surface mount and through hole versions for PWBs, with easy layout.

And I like the fact that you can stack them end to end and they mate 
properly, so you can have a 20 terminal "socket", and you can either use 
a single 20 way "plug" or you can have 3 sixes and a two, or something 
like that.

It's awesome for Power + transducer/sensor/actuator..

I'll never install a spade lug and barrier terminal strip ever again if 
I can avoid it. And if it comes up in a design peer review at work, I'll 
argue fairly forcefully against the "heritage" barrier strip.