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We are all carrying more devices that constantly need to be recharged. How many of you have either forgotten your chargers or used that “USB” charger that did not properly work on your USB device? Although it seems to be a simple thing to deliver power to a device, when done…

You may have already read about my 50:50:50 rule when it comes to the choice using tin plated surfaces versus gold plated surfaces in connectors. This rule says tin is the more economical solution if you have less than 50 contacts (mating forces), if you can live with 50 mating cycles…

It was just 10 years ago. Apple released the iPod, a device that boasted capabilities of carrying “1000 songs in your pocket.” It had a full 5GB of hard drive capability, with a black and white LCD screen, priced at just $399. It was in this same year that Apple made a decision to…

In this age of acronyms, FMLB or LMFB (or do you say FBLM?) are favorites in the power supply world.

‘First mate last break’ is a feature that provides for a longer than normal power blade or signal pin. Typical uses are i.e., as a long, or first mate, power blade for grounding the system…

Today, everywhere you turn; evening news, online, blogs like this are talking healthcare reform with passion on both sides.

Many times we look at these issues in the media and discount them as far removed from our daily lives and certainly remotely consider them in the context of the…

MicroSD cards are the smallest memory cards commercially available and are used in a host of devices such as mobile phones, tablet PCs, digital audio players, digital cameras and other electronic devices. At 15mm x…

In the connector world, quoting prices in terms of price per line is very common. It is simple, straightforward, and as long as that number is going down year-over-year, customers are happy!

“Power connectors(Molex Power…

Previously I noted the importance of knowing the applied cost of a connector. Here are the basic questions I start with when helping to design in a product:

Whenever you read about applications for connectors you hear about markets, end products, and possibly the specific tasks of this connector within an end product.

Since more than 80 percent of all connector applications are in conjunction with a printed circuit board, the first question…

To help empower the next generation of innovative design engineers, Molex is supporting the University of Michigan Solar Car team (UMsola) on its 1,800 mile race to win the 2011 World Solar Challenge in Australia in October, 2011….