CONTACTUMConnectors / demo

DEMO — fictional range. Local brief only, NOT SENT. No personal data is collected or transmitted.

COMPONENT / FICTIONAL EXAMPLE

Terminal block

A four-way block with screw terminals and a wire entry per way. The pitch is the specification, because it sets the wire size the block will take.

Original 3D render of a terminal block.
Original 3D render · fictional appearance concept

How it is made.

Moulded to a pitch, then the entries and screw holes are formed in the tool. The divider between ways is what holds the creepage distance, and reducing it is how a block stops meeting its rating.

Illustrative specification

Ways
Example · 4
Pitch
Example · 7.5 mm
Wire range
Example · 0.5–2.5 mm²
Rating
Example · 300 V, 15 A
Body
Example · polyamide
Screws
Example · M3, zinc plated

Every value above is an illustrative example for a fictional range. It is not a quotation, a rating or a measurement of any real component.

What a datasheet rating does not describe.

The joint it is part of. A connector rated at a current is rated in a defined test arrangement, and the same connector in a different housing with a different crimp can run hotter at half that current.

What it cannot show either.

Whether the crimp was made properly. The joint is inside the barrel, and a bad one looks exactly like a good one from outside until it heats up.