What are the advantages of Remo connectors? What are the reasons that affect the performance of Remo connectors?

    What are the advantages of Remo connectors? What are the reasons that affect the performance of Remo connectors?

    Remo connectors often require good flexibility in certain applications. Whether it is an interconnection mode or an operational issue, flexibility can play a key role in Remo connectors.

    In more advanced interconnect designs, the flexibility for designers to configure Remo connectors is increasingly important. Among them, Remo connectors are easy to replace and maintain on site, which is the embodiment of flexibility. Because the outer shell and internal contacts are plated separately in the interconnect system, design engineers can choose tin, tin/lead, gold or silver plated contacts based on cost and flexibility.

    Remo connectors’ flexible interconnect patterns allow for the selection of contacts with higher or lower contact force for most mating lead sizes, for example, in one system, 32 of the 39 contacts had at least one alternative force option . However, for applications such as high pin count interconnects, low contact forces and precision, soft and flexible leads are required.

    On the contrary, higher contact force is required when Remo connector designs need to face strong applications such as high shock and vibration, fretting corrosion, high current connections and long-term static connections. Remo connectors with greater contact force help overcome oxides caused by environmental conditions, which is especially beneficial in low-current circuits.

    It is a common phenomenon that the performance of Lemo connectors is affected, mostly due to improper operation or harsh application environment. Let’s take a look at the factors that affect the performance of Remo connectors?

    1. Sudden acceleration and impact loading may cause the connector to separate, or may cause the contact interface to temporarily separate, thereby interrupting the signal.

    2. If the contact of the connector is not hard enough, vibration will cause intermittent contact and fretting corrosion of the connector contact interface. And, if the amplitude is large enough, the vibration can also cause the connector connections to become loose or disengage entirely.

    3. Overheating or overcooling of the connector application environment may also affect performance. For example, at high temperatures, a connector's metal contacts may lose strength and ductility and may undergo stress relaxation, and plastic parts may creep or deform. Connectors can become brittle in low-temperature environments. In addition, different thermal expansion rates between connector parts will cause stress or damage to the seals, which may cause any corrosive gases or liquids in the environment to erode the contact interface or other connector parts.

    4. Corrosive factors such as dust will promote the wear of the connector coating and accumulate at the contact interface, thereby interfering with the electrical path and possibly causing an open circuit.

    5. Corrosion factors such as ammonia (stress corrosion cracking), sulfur-containing compounds (sulfide stress cracking) and chlorine-containing compounds (stress corrosion cracking) can corrode copper-based alloys used for connector contacts and plastics used for steel or housings .

    6. A large number of plugging and unplugging times of the connector will cause the plating to wear. If the connector is misaligned during mating and unmating, it can result in permanent contact clusters and even reduce the connector contact force if the strain is large enough.

    7. Water often contains dissolved salts, which will accelerate most forms of corrosion. If the connector does not have good sealing performance, it will be affected by corrosion factors, causing the connector to dissolve in water.