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Home > Forums > Industrial / Manufacturing Engineers > Activities > Automation & Robotic engineering Forum

COTS HiPwr Dsub Cable Assys?

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mgard79 (Mechanical)

8 Jun 12 13:24

Does anyone know where I can purchase commercial-off-the-shelf high power Dsub cable assemblies (5W5, 7W2, etc.)?
Thanks!

tygerdawg (Mechanical)

8 Jun 12 14:21

I don't recognize your designations 5W5 etc., but the first place I'd look for any kind of industrial COTS cables would be newark.com . I'm always amazed at the gazillions of different things they have there. Perhaps also allied.com IIRC.

Another option would be to purchase the right kind of cable and fab up the connectors with some of those easy-to-connect-with-screws-in-terminal-blocks (but pricey) Phoenix Contact D-Sub connector housings.

TygerDawg
Blue Technik LLC
Virtuoso Robotics Engineering
www.bluetechnik.com

mcgyvr (Mechanical)

8 Jun 12 15:52

How many do you need?
Any cable harness house can make them to your specs rather quickly..

mgard79 (Mechanical)

8 Jun 12 15:59

I've checked every distributer I can think of, and no one has them. I'm looking at very small quantities, ones and twos per year. That's the reason why I'd like to get these off the shelf, so I don't need to buy a bulk reel of cable, nor do I need to pay for the labor to assemble. I'm also afraid harness houses will charge me an arm and a leg for non-recurring engineering fees...

MikeHalloran (Mechanical)

9 Jun 12 22:10

Blackbox.com.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

danw2 (Industrial)

18 Jun 12 12:27

I was shocked at the reasonable pricing at which Blackbox has made cables for me. I, too, recommend calling them.

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