CHAMP .085 Right-Angle Receptacle with Board Lock and Shield
This is a right-angle, through-hole solder termination with an additional panel-mount flange (6-32 thread) — a configuration that lets you bolt the connector to a chassis or bulkhead while soldering the pins to the PCB, giving mechanical strain relief at the panel interface.
The board lock is a pair of plastic posts that snap into the PCB — they hold the connector in place during the solder process and add mechanical retention against the lever force of a mated cable.
The full metal shield around the outer shroud contacts is the main feature for signal integrity in this connector. It mates with the shield on the CHAMP.085 plug, creating a continuous Faraday cage around the contact interface. For a cable assembly running parallel digital signals — parallel printer, industrial encoder, or instrumentation bus — that shield keeps radiated emissions inside the cable and rejects external interference that would couple into the 24 lines. The board lock also ties the shield ground to the PCB ground plane through the solder tails, which is the return path for the shield current.