DEMO — fictional range. Local brief only, NOT SENT. No personal data is collected or transmitted.
GUIDE
The order the questions are worth asking in.
This is the sequence a connector project follows when it goes well, and the point at which each step becomes expensive to revisit.
- 1 · The joint
- What has to mate, and which half is fixed
- 2 · The current and voltage
- Per contact, and how many are loaded at once
- 3 · The environment
- Ambient temperature, moisture, vibration and atmosphere
- 4 · The keying
- So that similar connectors cannot be mated wrongly
- 5 · The contact and plating
- Chosen for the cycles and the atmosphere
- 6 · The crimp
- Tool, setting and pull-out table, recorded
- 7 · The assembly
- Because a correct part fitted wrongly is a failed joint
- 8 · The inspection
- Crimp height and pull-out, on a defined sample
Why the order matters.
Each step constrains the next. Choosing a plating before the mating cycles is choosing a life for a joint nobody has counted, and choosing a contact before the derating is sizing for a current that will not be the one it sees.
Where projects usually go wrong.
Step one, treated as a part number, and step six, left to the assembly floor. Both are cheap to settle and expensive to discover.