Cables/Connecting
Wires enable good electrical conductivity & high tensile strength
Wires with high electrical conductivity as well as high tensile strength properties are required for certain tasks. Because their mechanical strength is too low, pure copper wires, the best of all industrially used conductors, are not usually suited for these applications. However, ISA-CON wires, which combine both properties in an optimal manner, are suited.
Universal IC test sockets suit different package types
Suitable for different package types, making them versatile, flexible and universal, Yamaichi Electronics has announced the IC561, IC564 and NP584 series test solution sockets. The miniaturisation and integration process of state-of-the art IC components is leading the major electronics manufacturers to use many different package solutions. For the multitude of different package types there is often no standard solution available.
Cabling solution reduces wind farm costs
The 66kV cable system from Prysmian Group has been type tested in accordance with CIGRE and IEC test protocols, as part of the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme.
Offering robust protection and strain relief
A strain relief housing has been developed for ODU’s ODU-MAC, an add-on solution created specifically to meet the demands of ODU-MAC interfaces. The new housing, which protects the termination area against harsh environmental conditions such as blows, dirt and liquids (IP50 minimum), also offers optimal strain relief of the cables, provided by the strain relief housing.
Live demonstrations to help accelerate data centre development
It has been announced that live demonstrations of Broadcom’s PAM-4 PHY chips, driving copper cables designed for 40GbE, 100GbE and 200GbE data centre interconnects, will be taking place in the Broadcom booth 1264 at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) 2016 exhibition in Anaheim, California from 22nd to 24th March.
USB-C cable can connect to Thunderbolt, USB & DisplayPort devices
Startech.com has launched Thunderbolt 3 cables – the USB-C cables that do it all. For the first time, a single cable can connect to Thunderbolt, USB and DisplayPort devices. Thunderbolt 3 cables provide four times the data and twice the video bandwidth of any other cable, while also supplying power.
SMT target discs enable low profile
Mill-Max is excited to announce an addition to its family of spring pin mating products. This low profile SMT disc shaped terminal is suitable for applications where vertical space is at a premium. The 1578-3-57-15-00-00-03-0 SMT disc is 0.078" in diameter and only 0.055" ±0.002" (1.4 mm +/- 0.0508 mm) tall.
Harwin installs ‘ambitious’ Gecko connector assembly machine
In partnership with Festo, Harwin has designed and installed its largest ever assembly line to meet the sales demand for its Gecko 1.25mm pitch high reliability connector family. By utilising Festo’s products throughout the machine design, compatibility issues that sometimes arise when using conflicting hardware were removed.
Companies deliver power efficient 4K video solution over USB type-C
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation and MediaTek has announced the joint release of power-efficient reference designs that drive 4K UHD over a USB Type-C connector. Lattice’s USB Type-C port controllers and MHLtransceivers can easily be paired with MediaTek’s Helio X20, the world’s first mobile processor with Tri-Cluster CPU architecture and ten processing cores (Deca-core).
Custom armouring solutions for power & electrical distribution
AFC Cable Systems offers a wide range of custom armouing solutions suitable for applications in the power and electrical distribution industry. The custom armouring, available through both the AFC Cable Systems and Kaf-Tech brands, adds a protective interlocking armor to customer-supplied wire, cable or fiber core. Customers can take advantage of a variety of cable bundling options under one cable protection system, including bundling communicati...