Board to board SMT connectors?

[Winston]

Hello everybody,

I'm in Silicon Valley, California, USA and I'm developing a product that
must mate to an existing assembly. I seek about 100 pieces each of
these Tyco/AMP/Aces parts within the next 30 days:

1-5316560-1
1-5353187-1

They are 0,6 mm center distance 160 pin SMT board - to - board connectors.

All three vendors I contacted want reasonable money for these parts, but
require 3500 - piece minimum purchases for each part number. I *could*
buy them but that would blow the budget for the rest of the parts I need.

'Other vendors' have quoted full retail price with doubled lead times!

I found that eBay.com digikey.com, alliedelect.com or radioshack.com
cannot sell me these.

Can you recommend a good source that can sell me prototype quantities of
these parts?

Thanks!


-- Winston

 

[Ross Herbert]

Hello everybody,

I'm in Silicon Valley, California, USA and I'm developing a product that
must mate to an existing assembly. I seek about 100 pieces each of
these Tyco/AMP/Aces parts within the next 30 days:

1-5316560-1
1-5353187-1

They are 0,6 mm center distance 160 pin SMT board - to - board connectors.

All three vendors I contacted want reasonable money for these parts, but
require 3500 - piece minimum purchases for each part number. I *could*
buy them but that would blow the budget for the rest of the parts I need.

'Other vendors' have quoted full retail price with doubled lead times!

I found that eBay.com digikey.com, alliedelect.com or radioshack.com
cannot sell me these.

Can you recommend a good source that can sell me prototype quantities of
these parts?

Thanks!


-- Winston

Winston,

I have been trying to locate those part numbers on the Tyco website
without any joy.

The closest I can find are;
http://catalog.tycoelectronics.com/...358,17560,17540,17739&LG=1&I=13&N=1&IDS=60047
and
http://catalog.tycoelectronics.com/...358,17560,17540,17739&LG=1&I=13&N=1&IDS=76937

Are these the items you require? These part no's don't have the '5'
after the leading 1- as in your specification. It might make a
difference....

 

[Winston]

Winston,

I have been trying to locate those part numbers on the Tyco website
without any joy.

The closest I can find are;
http://catalog.tycoelectronics.com/...358,17560,17540,17739&LG=1&I=13&N=1&IDS=60047
and
http://catalog.tycoelectronics.com/...358,17560,17540,17739&LG=1&I=13&N=1&IDS=76937

Are these the items you require? These part no's don't have the '5'
after the leading 1- as in your specification. It might make a
difference....

That's them, Ross.

Tyco changed their part numbering system recently to include a leading
'5', but parts without the leading '5', in this case, are the same as
those with the '5'.

Thanks!

--Winston

 

[Ross Herbert]

That's them, Ross.

Tyco changed their part numbering system recently to include a leading
'5', but parts without the leading '5', in this case, are the same as
those with the '5'.

Thanks!

--Winston

Winston,

I see your problem... they are not readily available - anywhere that I
can find anyway! Unless some large OEM has some over from a production
run (difficult to imagine for such a specialised use product such as
this) then you are stuck with having to order MOQ and wait.
Unfortunately, if you are building for a customer, he is likely to
baulk at having to pay for the unused portion of the stock indent -
and if you don't charge him then you will be stuck with something you
may not use in the future.

Good luck.