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News Release from: Amphenol Industrial Operations | Subject: RoHS-compliant connectors
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 March 2007
Circular connectors are RoHS -compliant
RoHS-compliant versions of circular connectors are for low-cost general duty applications requiring high reliability interconnects with mechanical strength and environmental protection.
Amphenol Industrial Operations has introduced RoHS-compliant versions of its 97 Series circular connectors for low-cost general duty applications The 97 Series connectors are widely used for applications in the automotive, robotics, heavy equipment, machine tool, welding and other industries requiring high reliability interconnects with mechanical strength and environmental protection
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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These low-cost connectors are available in a wide variety of shell styles, contact patterns and accessory options; solder or crimp terminations; threaded couplings; hard dielectric inserts and non-cadmium finishes.
The shell components are fabricated from high grade aluminium for strength and protection.
Series 97 RoHS-compliant circular connectors have an operating temperature range -55 deg C to +125 deg C, an operating voltage up to 3,000VAC (RMS) at sea level and are both UL recognised and CSA certified.
Amphenol Industrial Operations, a manufacturer of high reliability connectors and interconnection systems for industrial markets, has now reduced or eliminated hazardous and ozone depleting substances from many of its connectors including multi-pin and signal connectors in the Amphe-Lite and PT ranges and 97 Series.
It will continue to offer the original standard versions of these connectors for customers not restricted by RoHS-compliance requirements.
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