The FDH1M housing is a robust, all-metal design with a square-based flange and mounting holes at each corner for bolting to the bulkhead, securing it firmly and helping to resist vibration and stress. In addition to being much more robust than plastic housings, the FDH1M's all-metal construction also helps protect the active device from radio frequency interference.
According to OMC Commercial Director William Heath: “Fiber optic data links are often used in processing plants for applications such as transmitting data to and from equipment like industrial weighing scales and control devices. In airborne environments, such as flour mills or paint shops, dust or dust particles can eventually find their way into optical connector systems, becoming trapped between the fiber end face and the transmitting or receiving device. This can attenuate the optical signal and cause the link to fail. We designed our new FDH1M receptacle to solve this problem; once the connector is inserted, the integral dust seal forms a barrier between the optical interface and the outside world, helping to eliminate particle ingress.”.
The new FDH1M SMA bulkhead receptacle is precision machined and assembled at OMC's purpose-built UK facility and is available with a range of aligned and housed transmitter and receiver diodes to form a dustproof transmitter or receiver module. The company's engineering team has over 30 years of experience designing fiber optic data links and components and specializes in tailoring its solutions to meet specific customer requirements.
