17 Jun
2013
17 Jun
'13
6:58 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
I tend to use DIN-mountable pass-through terminals more often, but those
are common for industrial and process control equipment.
They are plentiful and cheap on the surplus market, especially if you
don't mind used parts ;)
The term
"chocolate blocks" isn't common on the US side of the pond. The
Right....
industry term I often see used for them is
'lustre terminals'. Lustre
terminals themselves aren't commonly used in the US though, and the black
phenolic (Bakelite) plastic barrier strips tend to be more common. Part of
Barrier strips (and called that) are certainly known over here, but not
all that common. Yes, we sue them, but many more shops would stock
chocolate blocks than barrier strips. Pity, I like the latter... They make
small DIN-rail mountable breakout boards that have 2.54mm
(.100") headers for IDS/ribbon cable connectors that break each pin out to
individual screw terminals that might work well for this sort of thing too
(Weidmuller RI-xx, Phoenix Contact FLKM etc).
Yes, they should work fine, but have you looked at the prices? I suspec
the OP could pick up a Unibus expansion box and keep his RL11s for less...