Looking for electrical contact for use in injection molded h

[they call me frenchy]

Hello,
I am looking for a male/female electrical contact that we can mold
right into our housing that will be plastic injection molded. The end
application will be high volume, but right now we are trying to build
some prototypes.

The application is <5v, <50mA, <2Mhz. Male/female pair required. Do
they make them that we can mold right into the part or do we have to
use the "crimp & stuff" type? "Crimp & stuff" seems like it would not
lend itself to hi-volume. Physical size doesnt matter, cost does.
The product will be used outside.

Any info you could provide would be helpful.
I couldnt find anything on Amp/Tyco website.
thx,
frenchy

 

[Robert Baer]

they call me frenchy wrote:

Hello,
I am looking for a male/female electrical contact that we can mold
right into our housing that will be plastic injection molded. The end
application will be high volume, but right now we are trying to build
some prototypes.

The application is <5v, <50mA, <2Mhz. Male/female pair required. Do
they make them that we can mold right into the part or do we have to
use the "crimp & stuff" type? "Crimp & stuff" seems like it would not
lend itself to hi-volume. Physical size doesnt matter, cost does.
The product will be used outside.

Any info you could provide would be helpful.
I couldnt find anything on Amp/Tyco website.
thx,
frenchy
I am no expert, but i would look at connectors that have the pin size

and spacing that is desirable for the unit in question.
Mill-Max has a gerat varietu of connectors (pins and contacts), and
perhaps they would have those that are molded into the connectors that
were reviewed.
Next, a fixture would be needed to hold the pins / contacts in the
proper place in the mold.
Seems to me that a shaker bowl and feeder could be used to supply
pins to that fixture.
The fixture could be in two halves, so that the pins would move
easily into the "hole", and clamping those halves would hold them in
place during molding; this fixture i mention can be part of the mold itself.
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Alternate: buy the connectors and mold the new plastic around the
"old"; still need fixturing to hold the connectors.