Thermal connectors

Recording temperatures plays an increasingly important role in engineering and high-precision temperature probes and evaluation devices are used.

ODU supplies ‘thermal contacts’ in nickel-chromium/nickel (NiCr/Ni — model K) to connect these probes, measuring leads and evaluation devices.

The contacts can be fitted in the MiniSnap (circular connector with push-pull locking system).

Conventional standard connectors for thermal elements require an installation dimension of 12.5 x 25 mm. They neither have a locking system nor can they be designed so that they are leakproof.

Benefits of the connector include: up to protection class IP68 possible; connect up to nine thermal elements with a single connector; more than 90% space saving when compared with thermal element connectors; robust design due to a metal housing; no accidental ‘disconnection’ due to a secure push-pull locking system; more than 5000 mating cycles possible.