What are the factors that affect connector performance?

The performance of the connector is affected is a common phenomenon, mostly due to improper operation or poor application environment caused by connector performance reduction or failure. Baseconn shares seven common issues that affect connector performance:

1, Sudden acceleration and shock load will cause the connector to break off or may cause the contact interface to temporarily separate, thus interrupting the signal.

2, If the connector contact is not hard enough, vibration will lead to intermittent contact and fretting corrosion of the connector contact interface. If the amplitude is large enough, the vibration can also cause the connector to loosen or the WAN to become completely detached.

3, The application environment of the connector overheating may also cause the performance to be affected. For example, at high temperatures, metal contacts of connectors may lose strength and ductility, stress relaxation may occur, and plastic parts may creep or deform. On the other hand, connectors make the material brittle at low temperatures. There is also the fact that different rates of thermal expansion between connector components can cause stress or damage to the seal, which could allow any corrosive gases or liquids in the environment to erode the contact interface or other connector components.

4, Dust and other corrosion factors will promote the wear of the connector coating, and will accumulate at the contact interface, interfere with the electrical path, and may lead to open conditions.

5. Corrosion factors such as ammonia (stress corrosion cracking), sulfur-containing compounds (sulfide stress cracking), chlorine-containing compounds (stress corrosion cracking) will corrode copper-based alloys used for connector contacts and steel or housing, as well as plastics used in steel or housing.

6, A large number of plug cycles of the connector will cause the coating to wear, if the connector is misaligned when inserted, it will cause permanent contact groups, and if the strain is high enough, it will even cause the connector contact force to become low.

7. Water usually contains dissolved salts, which accelerate most forms of corrosion. If the connector is not well sealed, it will be affected by corrosion factors, resulting in the connector dissolving in water.