Electronics & interconnect
The highest unit volumes in the building and the components most often chosen badly. Interconnect decides whether a machine survives a million cycles, and no engineer has ever regretted holding the connector before specifying it.
15 shelves
we want filled.
Every line below is a display we would like somebody to own. Several are still completely open.
- 01
Circular and industrial connectors
M8, M12, M23 and heavy-duty rectangular connectors, shielded and unshielded, with IP67 and above. Field-terminable versions and US stock are what integrators ask about first.
- 02
Board-to-board and wire-to-board
Fine-pitch stacking connectors, headers, FFC and FPC systems, and the mating heights that let a customer thin a product by two millimetres.
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High-current and power connectors
Busbar lugs, hot-swap power connectors, high-current blade and pin systems for battery packs and racks. Derating at temperature, published, or it does not count.
- 04
RF and coaxial
SMA, MMCX, U.FL and board-mount RF connectors, coaxial cable assemblies and antennas. VSWR over band, and an assembly house that can terminate it repeatably.
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Cable assemblies and harnesses
Custom harnesses, overmoulded assemblies, drag-chain and torsion-rated cable, and the IPC/WHMA-A-620 class you build to. Harness quality is where machine reliability quietly lives.
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Wire, cable and sleeving
Single-core, multi-core, shielded, high-flex and halogen-free cable, plus braided sleeving, conduit and glands. Bend-cycle test data separates drag-chain cable from cable in a drag chain.
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Printed circuit boards
Rigid, flex, rigid-flex, HDI, heavy copper and metal-core boards, with impedance control and IPC class stated. Quick-turn prototype capability is worth as much as unit price here.
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PCB assembly
SMT and through-hole assembly, BGA rework, conformal coating, potting and box build. Say what you do in-house and what you subcontract, because everyone finds out eventually.
- 09
Passive components
Capacitors, resistors, inductors, ferrites, crystals and oscillators. Ripple-current ratings, temperature coefficients and a lifetime forecast, from a factory rather than a broker.
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Semiconductors and power devices
MOSFETs, IGBTs, SiC and GaN devices, gate drivers, diodes and modules. Authorised distribution only: provenance is not negotiable in this aisle.
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Relays, contactors and switchgear
Electromechanical and solid-state relays, contactors, circuit protection, fuses and surge arrestors. Coordination data and the UL file number, not just the mark on the label.
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EMC components
Common-mode chokes, filters, shielding, ferrite clamps and gasketing. Sold late, needed early, and the reason a lot of good products slip a quarter.
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LEDs, optoelectronics and lasers
Indicator and illumination LEDs, machine-vision lighting, photodiodes, optocouplers, laser diodes and modules. Binning and colour consistency across lots is the thing buyers get burned on.
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Terminal blocks and panel components
DIN-rail terminals, distribution blocks, marking systems, wiring duct and the panel accessories that make up half of any control cabinet.
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Antennas and RF modules
Embedded, external and GNSS antennas, plus certified radio modules. Radiation patterns measured on a realistic ground plane rather than an ideal one.
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