1 Jan
2002
1 Jan
'02
2:43 a.m.
Careful, now ... I don't think Amphenol makes the
AMP line of connectors,
though it's possible I failed to notice that over the 25 years or so that
I've had both an Amphenol catalog and an AMP catalog lying about.
They are indeed different companies. Amphenol used to be the American
Phenolic Company, and AMP used to be Air-Marine Products, Inc..
BTW, if you look back in history, the <shape +
shell-size + number of
contacts + gender> designation, e.g DB25P, DC37S, DD50P, etc, also
originated with Amphenol, if memory serves, yet folks still haven't really
come to use that rather precise set of definitions.
MIL-C-24308. (Should be required reading for this list, so we can end
this constantly surfacing thread about D-shells).
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org