One of EDAC’s original connector lines, the Cardedge+ family of card edge connectors, have grown to become one the largest offerings available in the market.  Available in a number of contact spacings, with multiple options for contact terminations, plating thicknesses and mounting styles, providing our customers more flexibility in their designs.  With a product offering that exceeds 446,000 parts, EDAC is the world leader in Card Edge connectors.

Card Edge Connectors

HIGHLIGHTS

• Card Edge connectors available in 350,000+ standard styles with options for custom variations
• Contact spacings of 0.050", 0.100", 0.125", 0.150", 0.156" and 0.200"
• Gold on contact mating area or gold over nickel contact plating
• PCB thru-hole, wirewrap, solder eyelet, extender board tail, and other specialized contact options
• From 2 to 188 contacts in single, bridged, and dual rows with or without card supports
• Styles for many computer standards including the latest versions plus PCI, EISA and ISA


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EDAC Rectangular+ family of Rack and Panel connectors offer a high reliability connection, ideal where a large number of wires are interconnected to a panel. Available in seven body sizes ranging from 14 to 120 contact positions. The hermaphroditic contact design provides a gas tight connection with superior shock and vibration resistance. Ease of mating is facilitated with the use of an actuating screw and lock nut, and polarized hardware.

RECTANGULAR CONNECTORS

Highlights

  • Industry standard connector with high reliability contacts.
  • Hermaphroditic contact design for no-fail interconnections
  • 100% fit, form and function alternative to Elco 8016 series
  • Gold over nickel plating for wire hole, PCB, wire-wrap and crimp contacts
  • Crimp contacts available pre-installed, separately in bulk or on a reel for automated process
  • In sizes of 14 to 120 positions, with actuating screw or lock nut both with polarizing hardware
  • Plastic and metal covers with cable clamps for strain relief

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EDAC offers an extensive range of industry standard D-Subminiature connectors. Our D-Sub+ family are available in standard density with 9, 15, 25, 37, and 50 contacts or high density versions with 15, 26, 44, 62 and 78 contacts. Vertical and right angle orientations, along with a variety of termination, plating and mounting options are available. They’re also available in a stacked configuration.

D-Sub Connectors

Highlights

  • D-sub connectors in standard, video and high density formats
  • From 9 to 50 pins (Standard), 15 to 78 pins (Hi-Density) or 29 pin (DVI)
  • Wide variety of footprints in vertical or right angle through hole PCB styles
  • Gold flash or gold plated contact surfaces, machined contact versions available
  • Metal shells provide EMI and RFI shielding
  • Plastic / metal or all metal versions available
  • Dual port stacked right angle connectors available, with matched or mixed connectors
  • Digital Video (DVI) and VESA / VGA styles available

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EDAC’s modular and magnetic jack connectors, the E-JAX’s has standard features including single or stacked units available in multiple body styles, with or without LEDs, right angle or vertical mount and various mounting options.

Modular & Magnetic Jacks

RJ45 & RJ11 Highlights

  • RJ11/ RJ45 single or stacked units with or without LEDs, with shielding and mounting options
  • Right angle mount or vertical mount in thru-hole PCB; some styles available in SMT
  • Gold flash or gold plated contacts, including high thickness gold plating for telecom
  • Shielded front ground, shielded rear ground, unshielded, or face shielded versions
  • Up to 8 ports ganged single row or 16 ports stacked as a dual row
  • Optional pair of LEDs in mixed combinations of green, orange, red, or yellow on receptacle face including bi-color variations
  • Low or high profile types, keyed or unkeyed, with or without mounting flange
  • Magnetic Jacks are RJ45 modular jacks with integrated network magnetics
  • Combined connectivity with signal conditioning, electro magnetic interference suppression and isolation
  • These parameters were previously performed by separate and discrete magnetic components mounted on the PC board
  • Available as single or stacked multi-port options

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EDAC Standard USB+ family of connectors are available in all types A, B and C in vertical or right angle orientations. USB's combine data and power in a small package. Type C offers ten times the speed of conventional USB's and will mate in either direction.

USB Connectors

Highlights

  • Up to 1.5 Mbps communication speed for standard USB 1.0
  • Up to 480 Mbps communication speed for standard USB 2.0
  • Up to 5 Gbps communication speed for standard USB 3.0
  • Industry Standard Plug and play technology
  • Hot Pluggable
  • Compatible with asynchronous and isochronous data transfer methods
  • Consolidated current serial, parallel, keyboard mouse and game ports as well as, ISDN and PBX

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HDMI connectors follow industry standards and are available in vertical or right-angle orientations. Single or dual port versions are available. These deliver high speed video transmissions resulting in very high-resolution images.

HDMI Connectors

  • Standard 19 pin type A, micro versions, and an automotive shrouded version are available
  • Vertical or right angle and single or dual stacked
  • Plating options from gold flash to 30u" gold for high insertion cycles
  • Hot pluggable
  • Synchronous and asynchronous data transfers

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One of EDAC’s connector lines, the Inline+ family of connectors are wire to board connectors providing a reliable and economical connection. These shrouded headers are available in a variety of positions. Right angle, vertical, SMT or through hole mounted to the PCB.  These connectors are ideal for use in wire harness applications and can be customized to meet your design parameters. Compatible with leading industry connectors as drop-in replacements.

INLINE CONNECTORS

Highlights

Non-Waterproof In-Line Connector Options

• Low-profile insulator body for space-saving on PCBs
• Low-profile insulator body for space-saving on PCBs
• Crimp contacts designed for a range of wire gauges from AWG #30-18
• Top entry or side entry configurations available
• Contact terminations include PC tail, SMT, wire hole, wire wrap, and crimp
• For use with multiple PC board thicknesses, including .047"(1.19mm) to .062" (1.60mm)
• .079" (2.00mm), .156" (3.96mm), .200" (5.08mm) contact spacing available

Waterproof In-Line Connector Options

• Current rating available from 3 to 10 amps for use with wire sizes

from 28 to 14 AWG
• 560 and 572 series offer our double latch solution
• Available in wire-to-wire and wire-to-board options
• Internal polarization to prevent mismating
• 5XX E-Seal+ Series uses a Proprietary epoxy sealing process through which seals the entire back of the connector rather than at individual pins. This provides for complete sealing with an impeccably smooth finish and guarantees no water ingress as fully tested to IP52 and IP67 standards

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EDAC offers a broad range of box, pin, and socket header connectors in the market. Box headers are widely used for board to board, or wire to board connections. Right angle, vertical and even custom bends are available. The breakaway design allows for separation into smaller units.  Pin Headers mate with socket receptacles, providing a reliable and economical BTB connection.  Available in multiple contact spacing options, in single, two or three row configurations.

HEADER CONNECTORS

Highlights

• Header posts can be cut to any height and board depth
• Wide variety of plating options
• Vertical, right angle or custom bends
• Breakaway design allows for easy separation into smaller units
• Sockets available with right angle and SMT contacts

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Spring Loaded Connectors

Features & Benefits

  • Magnets increase the reliability of the connection and provide polarization
  • Spring-loaded contacts maintain connection in environments with vibration to provide stable current flow
  • Precision machined to ensure high quality, low resistance, compliant connector giving it the edge over other technologies
  • A reliable, precision-made interconnect solution ideal for a number of demanding application requirements in the fast-moving world of electronic interconnects
  • Convenient for consumer electronics and in test environments where a large number of mating cycles are required (Up to 30,000 mating cycles)
  • Assembled into high-temperature thermoplastic to form connector arrays
  • High-quality “tear away” design prevents damage caused by unintended disconnection
  • Magnets pull the connectors together and the user can pull them apart resulting in a quick mating and un-mating process
  • More convenient than standard pogo connectors

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Enhancing one of EDAC’s original connector lines, the E-Seal family of D-Sub’s, USB’s, HDMI, Inline Wire to Wire and Wire to Board connectors, we have expanded it’s offering to include a complete range of waterproof options as part of our E-Seal series of products.

Waterproof Connectors

Highlights

• E-seal uses a Proprietary epoxy sealing process through which seals the entire back of the connector rather than at individual pins. This provides for complete sealing with an impeccably smooth finish and guarantees no water ingress as fully tested to IP67 standards
• Full range of D-subs from DB 9 right through to a maximum of 78 positions available
• Standard and high density footprints are readily available in vertical or right angle orientations. Plating options vary from gold flash to 30u” of gold and include a wide variety of mounting options
• Combo Power D-subs which can carry up to 20 amps on the Power pins
• USB Type A and B wire to wire use quarter turn twist and lock over mold and O-ring for the perfect seal every time
• USB Micro B saves valuable board space and provides maximum cable retention. Fully epoxy sealed at rear plus a custom O-Ring reliably seals the shell to panel
• IP67 Waterproof HDMI cable connectors with quarter turn twist and lock over mold and O-ring provide for a rugged waterproof connection in all outdoor video applications

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EDAC specializes in custom cable assemblies to meet or exceed the needs of your application. We have an extensive array of connectors to utilize in connecting your world. Various cable lengths, shielding, custom colors, customized connectors, wire gauges, jackets, latching mechanisms and custom markings are available.

Cable Assemblies

Highlights

• Cable assemblies for data and signal processing, and adaptors for intermating connections
• Standard lengths from 1 to 10 meters or 3 to 30 feet
• Breakout cables for multiple terminations
• Adaptors for DVI digital to VGA analog conversion
• USB cables in standard printer/device format (A to B) and alternates (A to A, B to B)
• Mini USB, Mini DIN, RJ45, RJ11, and other computer cables available in bulk
• Virtually any cable manufactured to mate with Edac connectors can be made


EDAC specializes in custom cable assemblies to meet or exceed the needs of your application. We have an extensive array of connectors to utilize in connecting your world. Various cable lengths, shielding, custom colors, customized connectors, wire gauges, jackets, latching mechanisms and custom markings are available.

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Custom Connectors

At EDAC, we pride ourselves on our ability to produce custom connectors and our flexible approach to modify our standard connectors; to meet specific customer requirements.

What sets EDAC apart in the connector industry is our ability to manufacture 'made-to-spec' and full custom connectors at low and high volumes. This includes basic modifications to an existing product to clean-sheet design for a unique end solution.

We are able to move quickly from concept to production in just 12 weeks, with prototypes in as little as 4 weeks.

EDAC can manufacture alternatives to competitor's obsolete parts. There is no need to accept a Product Discontinuation Notification!

We have an experienced Engineering Team ready to build to a specification and produce models and drawings. Quick turn samples available based on 3D printing rapid prototyping.

 

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