Connector adapter kits accommodate various types and sizes of connectors usually employed in many devices, like radios, coaxial cable, surge protectors, and antennas.
Types of the Adapter Connector
These connectors can be classified using many parameters including size, type, orientation, cable class, termination, and packaging type. Typically they are categorized based on gender into male and female types. Adapter connector kits come up with a wide range of connector types and sizes as per the projects or applications needed. The most common types of connectors are as follows:
- Threaded Neill– connectors.
- Polarity and Reverse Polarity TNC connectors.
- N connectors.
- Bayonet Neill–Concelman intelligent connectors.
- Ultra-High-Frequency smart connectors.
- Subminiature version A connectors.
- Reverse Polarity SMA connectors.
Gender
Most of the connectors have built-in gender male and female classification exits. Plugs are employed to be male, while jacks or sockets are employed to be female. Plugs are used to terminate cables and cords, while jacks are used for fixed locations on surfaces of walls, panels, and equipment. Cables and card termination can happen if plugs are not used. In addition, jacks can be used to fix surfaces that exist on walls, panels, and smart devices or peripherals. Cables featuring a modular plug on one end and a jack on the other, other than telephone extension cables, are uncommon. Instead, a female-to-female coupler with two jacks linked back-to-back is used to join lines.
Size and Contact
Adapter Connectors are designed this way using two numbers to present a large number of contact positions and installed contact numbers. Since these numbers are followed by P and C correspondingly.
These contact positions usually start from 1 and are numbered in sequential order. Contact position number 1 is on the left in jacks and on the right in plugs when viewed from the front with the retaining mechanism on the bottom. This method is used to ensure the contact position corresponds to the number of contacts. For instance, on a six-position surface, lies a two-contact plug, and on the external surface four positions do not have contacts, on the internal surface two contacts are numbered 3 and 4 correspondingly.
Cable Termination
Cable termination with adapter connectors is similar across the different number of positions and their contact with the plugs. Crimping is a tool that contains a die and can be exchanged with other tools if needed in a particular application. As a result, this tool is dynamic and adjustable to be used with other tools.
An 8P8C jack crimping tool resembles a die-set tool, the only difference is the eight teeth lining on the top side of the die. Once this tool starts operation, this die compresses the 8P8C plug. These teeth drive the plug contacts into the conductors of the cable being terminated as the die compresses.
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