James, My company is also having problems with Spectrum Control, only in the PI filtered D-SUB connectors, all pin counts. They are having capacity problems at the factory and there is no relief in sight. There is no real equivalent to these connectors when you consider insertion loss over the entire bandwidth. We have been re-qualifying other connector vendors with trips to the test lab (expensive). We repeat radiated emissions and the immunity tests on the I/O ports where the connector is used. In some cases we have been able to eliminate the need of the connector by moving the filter function to discrete components on the PCB's (still requires re-test).
Hope this helps a little. -doug ================================= Douglas E. Powell Regulatory Compliance Engineer Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. 1625 Sharp Point Dr. Ft. Collins, Co 80525 mailto:[email protected] http:\\www.advanced-energy.com\ ================================= -----Original Message----- From: Allan, James [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:20 AM To: 'emc-pstc' Subject: Need a substitute part HELP! I am looking for an equivalent to a connector from Spectrum Control part number 93538-1. This is a shielded 8 position modular phone jack with a capacitive filter of 110 pf at 710VDC on each pin. It was formerly Amp part number 93538-1 before Spectrum Control bought the rights. Any one out there have an idea of who might make an equivalent? (Yeah - Right) Link to Spectrum catalog page here http://www.spectrumcontrol.com/sigconpdfs/jackconn.pdf Jim Allan Senior Compliance Engineer Milgo Solutions Inc. E-mail [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
