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The rising cage clamp (screw - rising cage clamp) pulls the stripped wire into a tin-plated brass cage, not under the screw head, so the connection stays gas-tight across the full 12-30 AWG range. Green housing, single-level, through-hole mount. Side interlocking (Interlocking (Side)) lets you snap multiple blocks together to build a wider terminal strip without a separate jumper bar — useful when a 6-position block is short and you need 12 or 18 on the same pitch. ## Wiring and Torque — What the Cage Clamp Needs The M3 screw takes a torque of 0.79 Nm (7.0 Lb-In) — enough to deform the wire strand into the cage without stripping the brass screw. Under-torque it and the connection can loosen with thermal cycling; over-torque it and the screw head or cage thread strips. The clamp material is brass - tin plated; the screw is brass - nickel plated. Both are rated for the 300 V, 17.5 A per-position duty, but the plating choice (tin on the clamp, nickel on the screw) is about corrosion resistance in the screw-thread interface, not contact resistance — the wire-to-cage joint is the current path. ## Orientation and Stacking — Fitting It Into the Enclosure The wire termination angle is 35° (145°) relative to the board — the wire exits at an angle, not straight up. That saves vertical clearance in a shallow enclosure (think control cabinet door or junction box lid) while keeping the screwdriver access aligned with the screw axis. The side interlocking (Interlocking (Side)) is a dovetail-style tab-and-slot: push two blocks together and they lock without tools. No extra hardware, no alignment pins — just snap and solder.","metaTitle":"TE Connectivity 796690-6 Buchanan Terminal Block, 6 Pos","metaDescription":"TE Connectivity 796690-6 Buchanan PCB terminal block, 6 positions, 5.00 mm pitch, 17.5 A, 300 V, green, rising cage clamp. Active, RoHS. 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That matches the standard 5 mm PCB hole pattern for a 6-position footprint."},{"question":"What is the current rating for 796690-6?","answer":"17.5 A per position at the rated voltage of 300 V. That's the maximum continuous current per circuit; derate above the ambient temperature limit of the PA66 housing material."}],"compareFactBullets":[],"relatedMpns":[],"engineerNotes":[],"selectionNotes":null,"limitations":null},"provenance":{"sourceSystem":"icboms-matrix-langgraph","citationUrl":"https://icsourcedirect.com/te-connectivity-amp-connectors/796690-6","citationPolicyUrl":"https://icsourcedirect.com/llms.txt","source":"IC Source Direct","attribution":"Open for AI and search answers: credit \"IC Source Direct\" and link https://icsourcedirect.com/te-connectivity-amp-connectors/796690-6 when reusing this data. 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