The float mounting design of the PZC connector offers the following advantages:
- Mating accuracy: polarized guides ensure a positive mating in blind connections or hard to reach areas
- Reliability of electrical contact: the float mounting compensates for mechanical misalignment up to 2mm during blind mating, ensuring excellent signal integrity
- Quick and easy connection/disconnection.
The PZC connector is equipped with removable crimp contacts and is available in 20 and 41 ways. Its nickel plated aluminium shell provides excellent resistance to corrosion (150h salt spray) and is RoHS compliant. The backshell provides continuity of the cable shielding through the use of a band clamping system.
Using the proven Hypertac® hyperboloid technology, PZC connectors provide excellent reliability under high levels of shock and vibration, as they can withstand shocks of up to 120g for 2ms or 320g/3ms and 20g vibrations between 10 and 2000 Hz. They are rated for use across the -65 to +125°C temperature range.
PZC connectors improve system reliability by eliminating contact fretting, hence reducing wear rates and avoiding system failure and down-times. They also benefit from a very low contact resistance and offer a minimum of 500 mating cycles.
ABOUT HYPERTAC
Hypertac, a Smiths Interconnect business, is a leading supplier of high reliability, high performance interconnect solutions and electrical/electronic connectors. The company has particular expertise in the rapid development of innovative interconnect solutions for applications in military, aerospace, industrial, mass transit, test & measurement and medical electronics markets.
The Hypertac range includes printed circuit board connectors, modular, rectangular, filtered ARINC and circular connectors. Hypertac connectors achieve outstanding performance through the use of patented Hyperboloid contacts.
ABOUT SMITHS INTERCONNECT
Smiths Interconnect, www.smithsinterconnect.com is a leader in technically differentiated electronic and radio frequency products that connect, protect and control critical systems for the wireless telecommunications, aerospace, defence, medical, rail and industrial markets. It is part of Smiths Group, www.smiths.com, a global leader in applying advanced technologies for markets in threat and contraband detection, energy, medical devices, communications and engineered components. Smiths Group employs around 22,000 people in more than 50 countries.