Tactical communication and C4ISR customs

Connectors, backshells, and contacts

Heritage-proven products and custom-solution capabilities position Eaton as a primary source for C4ISR and tactical communications connectors and cable assemblies for all physical domains: air, space, sea, and terrestrial.

Eaton's extensive array of custom connector and cable assembly capabilities augment a broad range of standard C4ISR and tactical communications solutions.

Contact me about this solution

Back to search

Overview Design Resources

Core features

Modular designs and standardized production processes for quick development
Custom capabilities include cable assemblies and wiring harnesses.
Hotshoes, splitters, connectors, filtered receptacles, custom cables, and custom wiring harnesses.

Specifications

Custom hotshoe solutions

Eaton utilizes modular designs and standardized production processes to facilitate quick-turn development of custom plug/cable assemblies (depicted above) and receptacles (depicted to left). Additional design options and features include:

Accordion or pogo pin contacts.
Single or redundant contacts with pointed, cupped, or radiused-tip geometries.
Tail configurations include through hole, SMT, vertical mating, and right-angle mating.
Accordion contact advantages include reduced impedances and elimination of the possibility of contaminant build up between contact parts

MIL-DTL-55116 form factor 19 and 27 contact connectors

These high-contact density, 19 and 27 pin solutions support mixed audio, signal, and data applications that require more contacts than provided by MIL-DTL-55116 QPL connectors.

Gold-over-nickel contacts are rated for 0.23 amps and 3000 mate and demate cycles.
500 Vrms dielectric withstand voltage.
Passivated, stainless-steel shells.
Solutions include EMI/RFI filtered receptacles.
Custom capabilities include cable assemblies and wiring harnesses.

MIL-DTL-55181 power splitters

Power splitters are available to distribute power to multiple cables, plugs, or receptacles.

The stacking connector depicted to the left distributes power without the use of Y cables by incorporating plug contacts on the front mating surface and receptacle contacts on the rear.

The stacking connector plug contacts are mated to the battery. Internal contacts provide electrical continuity between the plug contacts, attached cable, and receptacle contacts that are mated to the QPL connector stacked on top of it. When used without a "piggybacked" connector mated to the receptacle contacts, the stacking connector functions identical to a MIL-DTL-55181 plug.

Filtered receptacles

EMI-filtered receptacles are available as standard products and custom solutions in five and six pin configurations with all pins, or only selected pins, filtered.

Standard panel-mount receptacles incorporate low pass, pi network, ferrite-ceramic capacitors. Each pin is surrounded by a filter that is connected to an internal ground plane. Standard products are designed for a 100 VDC working voltage with dielectric-withstand voltages up to 500 VDC.
Custom solutions can be developed for panel mount or cable mounting to meet a wide range of application-specific voltage, frequency, and impedance requirements. End-to-end filtered solution capabilities include custom connector/cable assemblies.

Custom cable assemblies and wiring harnesses

Military and aerospace cable assembly and wiring harness capabilities include overmolded, coaxial, flat ribbon, and fiber optic for power, data, and hybrid applications.

Solution-development expertise includes operation in extreme environments including extended temperature ranges, shock and vibration, radiation, EMI/RFI, corrosive contaminants, vacuum, and pressures to 20,000 PSI.

In addition to turnkey design and manufacturing for new projects, build-to-print services for production-ready designs are also available.

Visit the custom military cable and wiring harness web pages

Download Links

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power ─ today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy and helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges.

Tactical communication and C4ISR customs

Core features

Let's talk big ideas