Electronic Connectors

Micro-Ray lists 533 electronic connectors for data, video and board-level wiring – modular jacks and plugs, keystone jacks, patch panels and face plates, USB and HDMI, and PCB mount headers and receptacles. These are the parts that go inside equipment and into the wall plate, as distinct from the sealed circular connectors used outdoors and on machinery. Please call for pricing and availability.

What is in this range

• Modular Jacks – RJ11, RJ12, RJ45 – 196 parts. Through-hole and surface mount jacks, shielded and unshielded, single and ganged.
• PCB Mount Connectors – 57 parts. Board headers and receptacles including 4.2 mm Mini-Fit equivalent housings and floating board-to-board connectors.
• Keystone Jacks – 54 parts. Snap-in jacks for keystone face plates and patch panels, in the usual category grades.
• Face Plates and Surface Mount Boxes – 46 parts. One to six port plates and boxes to carry those keystone jacks.
• Patch Panels – 43 parts. Rack and wall panels, loaded and unloaded.
• HDMI – 33 parts. Type A receptacles and plugs, vertical, right-angle and surface mount.
• Multi-Port RJ45 Jacks – 31 parts. Two to twelve port ganged jacks for switch and patch hardware.
• USB – 20 parts. USB Type-C receptacles and plugs for board and panel mounting.
• Cable Management and 110 Cabling – 19 parts. 110 blocks, wiring blocks and the hardware that dresses a cable run.
• Modular Plugs – RJ45, RJ12, RJ11 – 14 parts. Field-terminated plugs for solid and stranded cable.
• Telecom Connection Modules – 12 parts. Krone and 110 style connection modules.
• RJ45 Jacks with Magnetics – 8 parts. Integrated magnetics jacks for Ethernet PHY designs, which save the separate transformer on the board.

How to pick one

• Mounting decides most of it. A jack is through-hole or surface mount, vertical or right-angle, with or without panel latches – get that right and the rest is electrical.
• Shielding follows the cable and the enclosure. A shielded jack is only worth fitting where the shield has somewhere to go.
• Port count – a ganged jack saves board space and alignment work over several single jacks.
• Cross-references. Where a part cross-references to another manufacturer the comparison is published on that part page, built from both datasheets. Anything that is not an exact match is described as similar with the difference named, never as a drop-in.

For single-port RJ45, RJ11 and RJ12 PCB jacks, side entry and top entry, see RJ45 and RJ11 modular jacks.

Drawings and quoting

Mechanical detail – pin arrangement, footprint, latch and flange – is on the drawing linked from each part page, and we confirm it against the drawing at quotation. Send us the part number you are replacing, or the board footprint and port count you need, and we will quote from the families above. Please call for pricing and availability.