Component Focus: RAFI Industrial Components

Описание: I'm Josh Bishop for OnlineComponents.com and today we're going to go over some RAFI switches and Universal contact blocks. Now you may know what Universal contact blocks are, but for those of you who don't - a RAFI Universal contact block is a central part of the RAFIs 22 FS control component line and they're designed to fit into a wide variety of RAFI switches and provide the actual electrical switching capabilities. This gives you the flexibility of choosing what types of contacts and what types of switches you want. Different ratings, styles, even the number of circuits actuated, with the contact block behind the panel and the actuator mounted above the panel, these
also save space and are nice to look at. Now this is just a smattering of different options you can get from RAFI, but it does show the breadth of products available such as these emergency stop
buttons. These safety certified devices exceed the IEC requirements in reliability, visibility, functionality and ease of use. To stop something you can strike the button without restraint, as it's designed for a powerful hit. To reset it simply twist and it pops back out. This one is part of the RAFI's 22 FS plus line and works with a different universal contact blocks to fit your application. While this one is the Lumotast 22 and has the electrical switching integrated. Making the parts smaller, reducing inventory, speeding up assembly and reducing potential part matching errors, RAFI offers 8 e stop product families to satisfy the most demanding customer applications. Here we have the RAFI 22 FS plus key lock switch and the accompanying key. I'm not a locksmith but this is a key design that I've never seen before. With the unique design and obviously high-quality key this inspires trust in its capability with the flat surface on the front of the switch as well, there's no way to get leverage on it and force it. This is a momentary switch and it goes either direction and depending on the universal contact block can either do the same thing either direction or different things whatever you need. I like this selector switch because you can easily see where the illumination comes through and it's easy to switch different colors and if used with different LEDs
or LED modules provided by RAFI to illuminate the selector in differentiating colors. The round collar makes installation easy and you get a lot of options due to its inclusion in the FS 22 plus line. And finally just to keep you on your toes and show you the different styles we actually have two
straightforward push buttons a panel mount push-button switch from the rafacz 22 FS line that works with the universal contact blocks and the mic on five this small SMT tactile switch. Despite its small size and being PCB mounted the mic on five has an actuating force up to 8 Newtons and an operating life up to 1 million switching operations what is really cool is that the entire rafacz 22
FS + Series and the miniature mic on five tactile switch can both be mounted on the same printed circuit board sitting just nine point two millimeters behind the panel this allows designers to incorporate industrial controls for safety and critical input applications and tactile switches for programming options. On the same front panel the important thing to note here is that the entire line of RAFI tactile and key switch products are compatible with the RAFI 22 FS plus when utilizing the PCB mounted Universal contact block. In short, RAFI has a wide variety of highly customizable switches and buttons ready to make your product amazing. If you want to learn more or purchase RAFI products go to https://www.onlinecomponents.com/feat...

RAFI UNIVERSAL SWITCHES & CONTACT BLOCKS

Standard components for the human/machine interface

RAFI’s product offering includes: Mono Construction Pushbuttons, Control components, Signal lamps and PCB Tactile and Key switches

Quick and flexible design of customer-specific versions and variants

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