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Re: [TowerTalk] Parallel Connections

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Parallel Connections
From: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 19:47:52 -0800
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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.

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