Half-Metre Half-Meter VHDCI Cables
Shielded EMC cable protected for defence and aerospace applications.
1 and 2 metre meter leads also available from CLIFF™ Electronics.
CLIFF™ Electronics, leaders in the design, development and manufacture of connectors and test equipment, have extended their range of industry-standard VHDCI (very high density cable interconnect) cables to meet the requirements for connecting instrumentation in industries such as defence and aerospace.
A new 0.5 metre meter length has been added to the existing range of 1 and 2 metre meter versions. Commonly known as a “Centronics” type data cable all are terminated with standard D-shaped connectors.
VHDCI cables are used in high performance data transfer applications supporting the latest SCSI style interfaces as well as for connecting peripherals such as portable disc drives, RAID data storage, HIL applications, tape backup drives, CD-ROM players and printers to computers. Although USB cables are now more commonplace, parallel cables are still required for many uses including connecting to legacy devices.
The VHDCI cable connector is very small and allows placement of four wide SCSI connectors on the back of a single PCI card slot. It uses the regular 68-contact pin assignment with the male connector (“plug”) on the cable and the female connector (“receptacle”) on the equipment panel.
Keep interconnect cabling to a minimum.
Key specifications
- Operating current: 0.5 A maximum per contact.
- Operating voltage: 30 V AC maximum (RMS) / DC.
- Enhanced EMC shield.
- EMI protection, ferrite core: ⌀ 17.5 × 28.5 × ⌀ 12 mm.
John Hall, Managing Director of CLIFF™ Electronics, says, “Our new half-metre half-meter VHDCI cable meets the need for connecting equipment mounted in racks or other close proximity systems where it effectively becomes a patch cable. It will be welcomed by system integrators who need to keep interconnect cabling to a minimum.”.
CLIFF™ are market leaders in the design and manufacture of standard and feed-through connectors for audio, broadcast and industrial systems including fibre-optic. fiber-optic.
CLIFF™ Electronics can supply
- jack sockets,
- DC power connectors,
- terminal binding posts,
- test connectors and leads,
- optical jacks and leads and
- waterproof connectors.
CLIFF™ products are available direct or from major, international distributors.
