Andon offers a growing family of sockets that permit quick and reliable battery replacement. The battery socket can be production soldered to the PCB, avoiding the need to hand solder batteries in place. Use of a battery socket also eliminates desoldering, blistering or delaminating of the PCB when the battery needs replacement. Our battery sockets […]

Combine the quality of a precision socket with the reliability and versatility of a glass epoxy insulator.  Sockets in this series are available in all standard DIP and QUIP styles, and in any configuration that can be drilled and routed. Insulator meets or exceeds military standards for shock and vibration !!  

Utilizing our famous High-Rel mult-finger contact, Andon offers many versions of SIP sockets. The large selection of SIP Sockets include adapters, solid and snap-off packages, board to board, pin headers and pin receptacles.  

Andon Pin Grid Array Sockets and PGA Adapters are perfect for high pin count microprocessors. Andon offers the widest selection of standard footprints, from 5×5 to 26×26, as well as custom designed PGA Sockets. Andon PGA Sockets offer a choice of insertion and extraction forces, including Andon’s exclusive 1 ounce ultra low force contact. Standard […]

Ironwood Electronics released a new product line “SG-9000 series” to the addition of GHz BGA socket technology that provides up to 10 GHz bandwidth in a small, cost effective ZIF socket for prototype and test applications.  The GHz BGA socket is a simple mechanical socket based on elastomer contact technology.