Case Study
This is an example of a particular project for one of our customers who supply state of the art optical, military and medical equipment.
Flair Electronics was approached by a new customer with a problem they were desperate to find a solution for. The customer was looking for a bespoke cable of a specifically short length, unavailable off the shelf, for a new product that was in development.
The cable, which would use IEEE 1394 Firewire connectors, would be attached to a continuously moving scanning camera enclosed within a small case. The cable had to be extremely flexible in order not to put load on the delicate camera control motor mechanism and needed to transfer an interference free data signal within the confines of the complex electronic equipment. Most of all it needed to be durable and failsafe which meant passing a 600,000 durability cycle test before it would be considered suitable for the equipment.
We knew that this problem would not be solved with an off the shelf multi-cored cable so we set up trials to find the best materials to fulfil the physical properties needed for a robust construction that would guarantee the flexibility needed.
Flair ran trials of discrete wires, screened braid and protective coverings and sent several samples to our customer evaluated the cables for construction and flexibility before choosing one of the cables for the 600, 000 cycle test.
The chosen cable stood up to the cycle test and showed no signs of wear and tear - a great result especially as this was the first attempt.
Following the successful trials the product has moved to pre-production with cables being supplied for five units to be field evaluated before final design and implementation decisions are taken prior to production
Flair has also supplied other connector and cable solutions on the same project, which is ongoing.
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Flair Electronics was approached by a new customer with a problem they were desperate to find a solution for. The customer was looking for a bespoke cable of a specifically short length, unavailable off the shelf, for a new product that was in development.
The cable, which would use IEEE 1394 Firewire connectors, would be attached to a continuously moving scanning camera enclosed within a small case. The cable had to be extremely flexible in order not to put load on the delicate camera control motor mechanism and needed to transfer an interference free data signal within the confines of the complex electronic equipment. Most of all it needed to be durable and failsafe which meant passing a 600,000 durability cycle test before it would be considered suitable for the equipment.
We knew that this problem would not be solved with an off the shelf multi-cored cable so we set up trials to find the best materials to fulfil the physical properties needed for a robust construction that would guarantee the flexibility needed.
Flair ran trials of discrete wires, screened braid and protective coverings and sent several samples to our customer evaluated the cables for construction and flexibility before choosing one of the cables for the 600, 000 cycle test.
The chosen cable stood up to the cycle test and showed no signs of wear and tear - a great result especially as this was the first attempt.
Following the successful trials the product has moved to pre-production with cables being supplied for five units to be field evaluated before final design and implementation decisions are taken prior to production
Flair has also supplied other connector and cable solutions on the same project, which is ongoing.
Have a look at what some of our other customer have said about us
