Old AMX connectors

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• ericmedley Senior Member - 3709 Posts

  March 2008

  Pep_SD wrote: »

  I just got an old AMX VSS2 Video sync sensor (year 1993 ?) and its female power connector looks like a recent AMX Netlinx connector, except it's bigger and 'rounded' on top and bottom...
  
  Anybody having references about the male corresponding connector and where I could get some?
  
  Thanks!

  
  You might look at this place. we get lots of phoenix connectors here.
  
  http://www.easyadapters.com/
  
  AMX still sells them too.

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• DHawthorne Junior Member

  March 2008

  They are called phoenix connectors, and the newer ones mini-phoenix. Last I looked, AMX could provide them. If you buy from a third party, make sure you get the right spacing between the pins, phoenix connectors come in various configurations. I was all excited when I came across a pile of connectors from another product that I thought I could use with the AMX, only to find the pins were a smidge farther apart, and therefore couldn't be used.

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• annuello Junior Member

  March 2008

  The current connectors are 3.5mm spacing. The old ones are 5.0mm spacing.
  Phoenix connectors are available in the following spacings (mm): 3.5, 3.81, 5, 5.08, 7.5, 7.62, 10.
  This probably isn't a complete list. As you can see, 3.5 vs 3.81 doesn't look very different in a "parts bucket", but once this is repeated by 4 pins it adds up pretty quick.

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• TurnipTruck Junior Member

  March 2008

  BTX Technologies sells them and you will get the most reasonable price from them. They are the 5.0 pitch.

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• Pep_SD Junior Member

  March 2008

  Thanks everyone for the info - got my order done!

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