FORGE Drawer Power Connector (English)

Narrator: In a market that continually strives for product solutions that enable faster design cycles with greater flexibility, TE Connectivity’s new FORGE drawer power connectors offer one of the greatest number of configurable power connections at an industry-leading current capacity.

FORGE Drawer Power Connectors
The Next Generation of Power Drawer Connectors

• Power systems and electrical hardware

Narrator: This next generation of drawer power connectors addresses the needs of power system and electrical hardware designers in applications including data communications, industrial, energy and medical.

FORGE Drawer Power Connectors
The Next Generation of Power Drawer Connectors
• Customization from existing tooling
• Enable multiple configurations
• Eliminate cost and lead-times for new molds

Narrator: FORGE drawer connectors leverage a new modular mold tooling platform that provides a wide variety of configuration possibilities, providing engineers with more design flexibility. This minimizes the risk and complexity in designing power interconnect modules for a wide range of products and makes it easy and cost-effective for engineers to use a power connect solution that is a suitable fit for their design.

Eric Powell
Product Manager, TE Connectivity

PM: The benefit of TE’s FORGE Drawer connectors is that customers can take advantage of the product’s high level of customization to achieve a tailored configuration. And unlike previous power solutions in the market, FORGE drawer connectors support the integrity of your end product by helping you find an accurate configuration for your design needs.

FORGE Drawer Power Connectors
The Next Generation of Power Drawer Connectors

• Available In 2x2 Through 2x5 and 1x5 Configurations
• Five different contact solutions from size #22 (up to 3A) to size #0 (up to 200A)
• Customized configurations

PM: TE’s FORGE drawer power connectors are available in 2 by 2, through 2 by 5 and 1 by 5 configurations to support direct current, alternating current and signal applications. Each position can accommodate a different contact module, providing five contact options ranging from Size 22 signal contacts which support up to 3 Amps per contact, up to Size 0 which support up to 200 Amps per contact.

Each of the 5 contacts types have been used in the market for years, providing a cost effective solution for contact designs which can be customized to meet different application requirements.

PM: The Forge Drawer’s modular design helps reduce costs associated with tooling multiple new housings. It also helps avoid the inefficiency of using larger housings than the application requires, resulting in unpopulated positions and wasted space.

Product Features
• Fully shrouded power contacts are touch safe
• A single part can use up to 10 modules

PM: Some other unique features offered by TE’s FORGE Drawer Power Connectors include fully shrouded power contacts that are touch-safe and the ability for a single part to use up to 10 modules in a 2 by 1 to 2 by 5 and 1 by 5 configuration.

Product Features
• Configurations supporting > 1000A
• Multiple mating sequence levels
• Easy contact termination and removal from the housing with existing tools

PM: FORGE drawer connectors also include the ability for configurations to support in excess of 1000 amps in a single connector, multiple mating sequence levels for power and signal contacts and easy contact termination and removal from the housing with existing contact extraction tools.

FORGE Drawer Power Connectors
The Next Generation of Power Drawer Connectors
• Extensive flexibility
• Leading current capacity
• Versatile fit

Narrator: TE Connectivity’s FORGE drawer power connectors offer a very high level of configurable power connection options, at an industry-leading current capacity to provide engineers with a wide variety of configuration possibilities and more design flexibility than ever before.
• Extensive flexibility
• Leading current capacity
• Versatile fit

FORGE drawer power connectors from TE Connectivity.

Contact your TE representative or distributor today.

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