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Elite Electronics' EMI/RFI Filtered Connectors

A filtered connector's specified 'level of filtering' determines the construction and performance of the connector's filter.  The filter's component selection and construction technique determines its ability to suppress, or attenuate, the 'EMI/RFI noise' being conducted or radiated by the input-output interface (I/O) cable and/or through enclosure’s connector aperture.     

It is important to remember that EMI/RFI protection begins with your design team's complete understanding of the system's performance requirements.  Component selection, printed circuit board (PCB) layout and sound enclosure design are major factors in determining good EMI/RFI protection.  Unfortunately, even when these factors have been taken fully into consideration by the design team, your system still may meet not meet agency (e.g., FCC, CE, et cetera) EMI/RFI performance requirements.     

In many instances, poor EMI/RFI performance can be traced directly to the system's I/O interface cabling.  EMI/RFI filtered connectors provide a cost-effective means for helping system designers to further reduce radiated and susceptibility electro-magnetic and/or radio frequency interference problems typically associated with a system's I/O ports.  When filtered connectors are used in conjunction with good design techniques, a system's harmful EMI/RFI characteristics can be reduced to acceptable levels or eliminated.  It is important for your designers and specifiers to remember that if a system's I/O cabling interface is not properly filtered, or decoupled, it can become an antenna system.   If this happens, the resulting 'antenna system' will let harmful (spurious) signals from adjacent systems and/or components into the system (susceptibility) and may allow your system to emit ('radiate') spurious energy/signals that can affect other systems.  Filtered connectors are typically found in the following types of high-level electronic systems:       

We look forward to receiving your drawings and specifications.  After carefully reviewing your requirements, Elite Electronics will provide product delivery lead times and pricing based on your estimated usage requirements.

Elite Electronics requires its fabricating sources to provide a written ISO Certificate of Compliance (C of C) inclusive of the product's ISO Manufacturing Date Code, RoHS - 2002/95/EC (Directive on the Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical & Electronic Equipment) and WEEE - 2002/96/EC (Directive on Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) compliance with each production shipment.   

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