Blade and Receptacle Design for Faster, Easier LED-Lighting Connection

Tyco’s in-line connectors now offer a surface-mount hermaphroditic blade and receptacle design to enable fast assembly.

These connectors provide faster and easier connection for aluminium-clad PCBs in LED-lighting applications such as lighting controls and LED-light modules.

The low-profile, surface-mount connectors are available in two, four, and six positions, allowing LED PCB strips to be joined with traditional post-and-receptacle headers. Connections can be made by sliding the two boards together horizontally or vertically. The capability to slide the two boards together vertically makes replacement of a board in the middle of lighting strip easier.

The new connectors feature a flexible mating engagement allowance of 2.5mm horizontally and 1.1mm vertically to accommodate variations in the mounting of the PCBs. It also permits right-angle mating of the boards. The liquid-crystal polymer housings are compatible with vacuum pick-and-place equipment and reflow soldering, and feature a low, space-saving profile of only 3.2mm.

 

FEATURES Connector mates to itself Connector can be articulated from90° to 180° Rounded corners to minimise shadowing Solder pad footprint compatible with Tyco Electronics SMT Poke-In LED connector 5A current rating

APPLICATIONS LED-lighting modules Incandescent-lighting strips Channel lettering

 

 

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