AVX releases first industrial poke-home connector available without a wire stop

AVX has released the first industrial poke-home connector available without a wire stop.

The 2.5mm poke-home contact - the latest addition to its 70-9296 Series STRIPT insulator-less, single-position, horizontal, poke-home contacts - combines a low profile with a range of compatible wire gauges: 20-26AWG solid and stranded wire, and is the first in the series and on the market to offer variants both with and without a wire stop.

Designed for use in solid-state lighting (SSL), industrial machine control, sensor, smart grid, building control, security system, and other ruggedised, space-constrained board-to-board, module-to-module, and wire-to-board applications, both versions of the 70-9296 Series feature a closed, dual-beam, high-spring-force, box contact design with robust, fatigue-resistant, phosphor bronze contact beams and an integral centring guide, ensuring proper positioning and providing maximum mechanical stability and wire/pin retention strength.

In addition, the variant without a wire stop allows traditional pin jumpers to pass through the back of the contact unrestricted, rather than halting their travel at the back of an insulator, effectively absorbing variable PCB and module mating tolerances in linear board-to-board applications.

The 70-9296 Series are rated for 300VAC based on contact spacing, 6-12A based on AWG, five-cycle durability, and operating temperatures extending from -40°C to +125°C. They are also mating compatible with competitors' jumpers and are packaged on tape and reel for automated SMT placement.

STRIPT contacts provide simple, reliable, and cost-effective alternatives to larger and more expensive, but equally reliable, one- and two-piece insulated connector solutions, as well as inexpensive, but wildly unreliable hand-soldered connections.

They surface-mount to PCBs, are compatible with solid and stranded wires, feature integral wire guides and - with the exception of one of the new 2.5mm variant - a wire stop, and are currently available in five sizes: 1.7mm, 2mm, 2.5mm, 3mm, and 4mm, all of which are UL approved, save for the new 2.5mm variants, which are pending approval.

Source from:newelectronics