High voltage butyl cable.
Armored Bushing Cable. BX building wire with polyvinyl chloride insulation, 600 V.
A region of operation that is arrived at by increasing the neon lamp current beyond the normal glow region.
Butyl-polyethylene high voltage cable, 75° C.
Ability to resist surface wear.
A motorized device consisting of buffing wheels that scrape flat cable insulation from conductors.
Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene. An amorphous thermoplastic ter-polymer (or three component polymer, chemically bonded) that finds exceptional use in the connector industry because of low cost, dimensional stability, high impact resistance, excellent mechanical properties, good working temperature range, and high surface hardness.
See Alternating Current.
Synthetic tapes, felted asbestos wire with glazed cotton or glass braid overall, 1000 V, 90° C.
A test in which voltage, temperature, and other parameters are increased above normal operating values to obtain observable deterioration in a relatively short period of time.
A system of flooring consisting of completely removable floor panels, supported on adjustable pedestals or stringers.
A series of holes in successive layers, each set having a common center or axis. The holes of a multilayer printed board provide access to the surface of the land in one of the layers of the board.
Refers to the sum of the seek time and the time that a disk drive takes to spin the disk until the appropriate portions of the track are spinning under the read-write head.
Mechanical devices, such as cable clamps, added to connector shells and other such hardware that are attachable to connectors to make up the total connector configuration.
A crystalline thermoplastic used in the fabrication of connectors. Acetals possess properties similar to metal and offer good resistance to organic solvents. Due to their flammable chemical composition, no flame resistant grade of acetal exists.
Acetal resin is a rigid thermoplastic resin with mechanical and machineable properties similar to that of some metals, such as, zinc, aluminum and other metals.
The molecular structure of the polymer is that of a linear acetal, consisting of unbranched polyoxymethylene chains.
Acetal resin can be molded or extruded to provide high tensile and flex strengths, resilience and solvent resistance. Good electrical properties survive humid conditions.
See AC Receptacle.
Three pronged international AC connector. Assemblies are designed for equipment using a power line cord which is able to be plugged to the equipment. Applications would include slide and overhead projectors. The third prong is used as an earth ground.
Fluxes consisting of inorganic acids and salts that are used when a surface to be soldered is not sufficiently clean for rapid wetting. Also called corrosive fluxes
Cable with corona resisting insulation
Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS)
See ABS.
Aluminum Conductor, Steel Reinforced
Armored cable with plastic insulated conductors.
A treatment that makes non-conductive material receptive to electroless deposition. Non-preferred synonyms include: seeding, catalyzing, initiating, and sensitizing.
Those components in a circuit that have gain or that control the direction of current flow, such as: transistors, diodes and integrated circuits.
The force required to move an actuator to the switch operating position.
The process that causes a switch to open or close.
Armored cable with latex rubber insulated conductors.
Varnished cambric insulation and polyvinyl chloride, with overall interlocked armor, 5000 V.
Analog to digital converter. A circuit which converts analog or linear information into digital information.
Digital logic circuit which generates the sum and carries bits of two or more numbers.
A process for obtaining conductive patterns by the selective deposition of conductive material on unclad base material.
A phenomenon that occurs because of a physical/chemical interaction of deformed asperities on surfaces when two surfaces are pressed together.
The chemical process of treating a plastic surface to be receptive for a uniform, well-bonded metallic overplate.
Cables in which internal bonding is accomplished by adding an adhesive coating to the surfaces of the inner cable components (wire insulation, cable jacket or spacer), and joining and curing the adhesive to form a stable cable matrix.
See also Bonded Cable.
A wide range of materials including animal and vegetable type glues, rubbers, elastomers, thermosetting and thermoplastic resins, ceramics, and hot melts. Adhesives are used extensively for bonding, sealing, and joining laminates, films and foils, coils, conductors, etc.
Any conductor next to another conductor, either in the same multi-conductor cable layer or in adjacent layers.
The ease with which an alternating current flows in a circuit. The reciprocal of impedance.
The chemical adhesion of gas or liquid molecules onto the surface of solids or liquids with which they are in contact.
American Electronics Association (Formally WEMA)
A special geometrically-designed conductor from which electromagnetic waves emanate and radiate out into space or are received from space.
Audio Frequency
Automatic Frequency Control. Most commonly used in FM receivers to keep the receiver from drifting off station.
Heat resistant cord with impregnated asbestos insulation and rubber jacket. 300 V, 150° C, 16-18 AWG, 2 or 3 conductors.
Automatic Gain Control
The change in properties of a material with time under specific conditions.
The process of shaking/stirring a plating bath to replenish metal ions at the cathode interface, thereby increasing the deposition rate. Usually, as more effective agitation is achieved, higher duty cycles can be used to increase the plating rate or lower voltage and current for improved quality.
Flexible nickel conductor with silicone impregnated asbestos insulation and with glass braid overall. 300 V, 200° C.
Aircraft Industries Association
Formerly American Institute of Electrical Engineers, now known as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
A cable in which air is the essential dielectric material. A spirally wound synthetic filament or spacer may be used to center the conductor.
Impregnated asbestos insulated appliance wire, moisture resistant, flame resistant, without braid. 300 V, 125° C.
Wire or cable having an aluminum sheath.
Felted asbestos fibers with outer asbestos or glass braid; heat, flame, and moisture resistant, 600 V, 125° C.
A mechanical device shaped similar to the jaws of an alligator, generally used as a temporary connection on the end of a test lead or inter-connections wire.
Plastics based on resins made by additional polymerization of monomers containing allyl groups, such as diallyl phthalate. Often compression molded, offering good high temperature performance and chemical resistance.
A push button switch requiring one push to turn on and another push to turn off.
A current that is continually varying in magnitude and periodically changing direction of flow, caused by a continuously changing and reversing polarity voltage source.
A lightweight, silvery white metal whose atomic number is 13. Aluminum conductors are used in weight-sensitive or high-current applications. Because the material is susceptible to oxidation, corrosion, and creep, it requires special considerations with regard to crimping.
A type of steel material in which no aluminum is added.
An aluminum-steel conductor is a composite conductor made up of a combination of aluminum and steel wires. In the usual construction, the aluminum wires surround the steel.
See Amplitude Modulation.
Conditions existing at a test or operating location prior to energizing of equipment (example: ambient temperature).
See AWG.
A family of thermosets that includes reactants of melamine and urea. The properties and general use of these materials depend on the ratio of formaldehyde to the melamine or urea. Those with the lowest percentage of formaldehyde are used in molding compounds.
See also Melamine.
See Ampere.
See Current Carrying Capacity.
A standard unit of current passing. Designated as the amount of current that occurs when one volt of emf is applied across one ohm of resistance. An ampere of current is produced by one coulomb of charge passing a point in one second through a conductive material cross-section.
The basic unit of measure of the electrical capacity in Coulombs of charge that a cell or battery can deliver over time, i.e., the product of the supply current times the time period.
A device which produces, as an output, an enlarged reproduction of the essential features of its input signal. Most amplifiers provide voltage gain, current gain, or both (power).
The maximum value of a varying wave form.
A common method of radio broadcasting in which the amplitude or strength, of a radio carrier wave is changed above and below a certain level. The changes in the strength of the carrier wave, when detected, represent the information that was transmitted.
