Sealed D-Sub for Washdown Environments — IP67 Only When Mated
Unmated, the connector has no sealing; cap the open half during service intervals to keep the contacts dry. The shell follows the standard layout for shell size 1 (DE, E), mating with any standard 9-position D-Sub receptacle of the same shell size. The unthreaded housing/flange uses a slide-lock or screw-lock retention system — the flange itself is not threaded, so the mating hardware comes from the receptacle side or a separate lock set. Grounding indents on the shell provide shield-to-shield contact before the signal pins mate, bleeding EMI to ground through the chassis. This matters for industrial equipment where conducted emissions need a low-impedance path at the connector face.
Solder Cup Termination for 20 AWG — Field-Service Friendly
Termination is by solder cup, not crimp. The cups accept 20 AWG stranded wire — strip, tin, and solder directly into the cup. No special tooling required, which makes this connector practical for field repair and low-volume builds where a crimp press is not available. The brass contacts are gold-plated on the mating surface, giving corrosion resistance and stable contact resistance across repeated mate cycles.