Questions tagged [screw-terminal]
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Feasibility of Using Xinya XY2500 4-Pin Pluggable Terminal for Three-Phase PCB
I am designing a PCB for a three-phase system and considering using the Xinya XY2500 4-pin pluggable terminal connector (pitch 5.08 mm, rated 15A @ 300V) to connect R (Phase 1), Y (Phase 2), B (Phase ...
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Terminating wires into circular connector panel mount screw terminals properly
This circular panel mount has screw connectors that I'm unfamiliar with, and I'm having a hard time finding out online how to terminate my cables properly in them.
I'm used to crimping ferrules onto ...
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How reliable are screw terminal blocks when the connected cables are allowed to sway a little bit?
2.54 Screw terminal blocks are a really convenient way to wire up devices without the need to solder a port or a jack connector.
However, with all their convenience, how reliable are screw terminal ...
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3.5mm pluggable screw terminal, but male side PCB mount
I have a few NI USB-6000 DAQs with a 3.5mm pluggable screw terminal. I want to used them in battery prototyping so I'll need to build a few unity gain differential opamps for cell voltage monitoring ...
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Unclear pins for PCB terminal block
I want to use this terminal block on my PCB. However, the schematic and PCB footprint Mouser provides are unclear to me. Why are there 4 pins and what is my signal and ground pin? The data sheet does ...
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A question about type of electrical connector
I have some electronics equipment inside an enclosure and at some point many ground and supply wires needs to be joint.
Focusing on the blue wires in the below photo, I soldered three wires on both ...
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How To Connect Silver Wire Electrodes to Transimpendance Amplifier
As the title suggests, I need to connect silver electrode wires that are about 1 inch long and 1mm diameter (sticking rigidly out of a microfluidic cell) to a transimpedance amplifier. The problem is ...
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Connecting PET films electrodes to PCB
I have a plastic PET film that has been sputtered with silver (electrode)
I'm trying to connect the electrode to the PCB (there are pads in the PCB).
What is the best way to achieve high conductivity ...
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Wire Prep for Spring Terminal Block
I am assembling an electrical system for a project, and I'm using these terminal blocks because of their ease of use. Currently my wire ranges from 14awg stranded to 20awg stranded (20awg has some ...
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Multiple connections under a barrier terminal strip screw
Multiple connections under a barrier terminal strip screw.
I know that you shouldn't place two wires under the screw of a breaker, called "double lugging" and can make for a bad connection ...
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Measure current through a screw terminal
Let's say that I have two wires spliced together with a screw terminal: I don't know exactly how they are called in English, maybe Mammouth? These things here, where you have one wire "screwed&...
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How to connect a flex ribbon cable to a screw terminal block?
Does anyone have ideas on how to mate a flex PCB with a screw terminal block?
Some background:
At my workplace, we're using the following Keysight DAQM900A Datalogger MUX cards:
In the past we've ...
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How to Solder a Screw Terminal to Square Pad Proto Board
I want to figure out the best way to solder each terminal of a screw terminal block to a row of this proto board that has square pads. None of the squares are electrically connected. I assume just a ...
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PCB edge connectors for either board to board and screw terminal
I am at the final stage of design a pcb and I am looking for a connector to power it (2 pins, more would be also ok).
It has 2 use cases:
I could be either used as a standalone product, in this case a ...
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What caused these crystals to grow on overheated PCB?
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This is a picture of a screw terminal on a 3d printer mainboard that overheated or caught fire, likely due to a loose connection or overcurrent. One thing that caught my eye is the crystal ...
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