ID Connector for KSU/PBX 616 flex 1

[webbo2794]

Hi.
I have a Vodavi Flex 616 which has two port on the side of it to run to the punch down block. I am installing this in my home, I have three incoming lines, and I can do eveything but locate the name of this connector. I thought I read Amphenol, but their website was no help. Does anyone know what this connector is or where I can buy one? Is this a normal connector for small phone systems? Any help would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Warren

 

[paul144]

It is called an amphenol connector and is used in most telephone system set-ups. You can get one at any good electrical supply house like Graybar. It is not a brand name, it is a part name. There are various ways of coming off of an amphenol connector. Usually the amphenol gets wired out to a punch-down block but you can get them pre-wired to a strip of phone jacks, which is probably your best bet for ease of installation.
You will need to know the gender of the amphenol connector that you need.
Good luck!

 

[SYQUEST]

It is called a ribbon connector, because of the contact arrangement, like little ribbons, and Amphenol was the first company to manufacture them in the late 1950s. Then TRW-Cinch (now just Cinch) started making them also, along with 3M and AMP. But the AMPHENOL & Cinch connectors of this type are the 57 series for solder type and the 157 series for IDC type. The first phone to use this connector (the 50 pin version) was the WECO CallDirector circa 1958 era.

Newark Electronics sells them,

http://www.newark.com,

but you might find them in some local electronic shops or surplus with cable already equipped.

Hope this helps!

....JIM....

 

[skip555]

It is called a ribbon connector

no its not

a ribbon connector is used with flat cables of varios pin configuration

what he is looking for is a 50 pin connector used for 25 pair round cable

amp "champ" is the most common one although 3m made one and a few other companys did as well

they are still pretty comonnly refered to as "amp" cables

 

[SYQUEST]

Skip555,

Obviously you have never seen the Amphenol or Cinch catalogues, they are called miniature ribbon connectors. One of them even trademarked the term:Micro Ribbon®. Also in the Bell System Practices in the sections pertaining to same, they use the term too!

In fact the Amphenol & Cinch brands were prefered over the "AMP champ" in the Bell System and those were the only ones Western Electric used in manufacturing.

The "AMP champ" was the cheap IDC when they were first introduced. The original ribbon connectors were all solder terminals only. Since the Amphenol & Cinch are identical you can use the same mass termination or hand tools to put them on cables or cords. The "AMP champ" is by its self and the its hand tool can only be used with AMP types.

....JIM....

 

[3rc]

The Vodavi Starplus Flex16 comes out to three amp connections one for trunks and misc.the others for stations,it uses two pair for each station .straight white/blue blue/ white,white/orange orange/white
Green Red Black Yellow
I've been in the industry 20+ years and never heard of an amphenol cable called a ribbon cable.On the inside of a KSU the amp is soldered onto a ribbon cable,but externally ,a 25 pair amphenol to 66 block, either connectorized block,or manually punched down.for your gender ID purposes,pins on outside of connector,female
Pins in center male. Maybe info to infantile,but we are talking to a newbie, I assume.