Covid-19 Notice

To our Customers, Distributors and Manufacturers As we are all navigating through this challenging time, O'Donnell North would like to update everyone on our current activities to ensure the safety of our workers and colleagues. While our "office" remains closed in support of orders by the State of California to "Shelter In Place" our entire team has all the same resources working from home that we have at our "brick and mortar" office.

Most of our manufacturers are operating as ESSENTIAL companies due to their extensive product lines that are geared toward the medical market.

Please contact our anyone on our team via the main office number, individual mobile phone, email, or text message. We are readily available to deal with you and your team and we are in constant communication with the factories that we work with.

Thank you,

Mark Conley

President, O'Donnell Associates North, Inc.

Cinch Connectors - SMPM Series with a 0.210” Bullet Adapter

Cinch announces an expansion to the Johnson SMPM series, with the 0.210” bullet adapter. The adapter is used in conjunction with board mount and cabled connector offerings in full detent, limited detent and smooth bore configurations, in single port and four port systems.

This adapter offers superior performance from DC to 65GHz. The Johnson bullet adapter offers a maximum VSWR of 1.15 to 18 GHz, 1.25 to 40 GHz and 1.45 to 65GHz. This adapter provides high- performance and reliability, where extreme shock and vibration conditions are expected and where space and package density are a premium. Applications include Test and measurement equipment, Instrumentation test fixture equipment Semiconductor ATE test boards, Microwave tuners and digitizers, Rack mount and RF subsystems.

1mm Polymer Aluminum Capacitor from Cornell Dubilier

Thinner than a dime, available in custom values and shapes.

The new PPC Series of ultra-thin polymer aluminum electrolytic capacitors from Cornell

represents a totally new capacitor form factor. Designed specifically for applications requiring high ripple current and the thinnest possible profiles, type PPC opens up new product design options. In addition to being just 1 mm thin, the PPC uses versatile packaging technology that makes it possible for capacitors to be formed into custom shapes and sizes to accommodate available space.

“A single PPC capacitor offers capacitance and ripple current equivalent to dozens of SMT capacitors or a bulky cylindrical device,” said Mario DiPietro, Product Manager at Cornell Dubilier. As an example, the company claims that a single PPC capacitor is equivalent to a parallel bank of 50 or more polymer tantalum capacitors and occupies one fourth the height. Also, circuit reliability is improved by using a single component versus an entire array of SMT capacitors.

Custom values are available within a capacitance range of 8,000 µF to 20,000 µF, with working voltages ranging from 6.3 to 24 WVDC. The company plans to extend the series to higher operating voltages later in the year. Operating life is 2,000 hours @ 125° C.

The PPC is rated for 10 g peak for vibration and withstands shocks up to 100 g’s (MIL-STD-202, Method 213, Condition I). With flat tin-plated copper terminations, it is possible to mount the device off-board or directly to a PCB. Mounting is by means of 3M double-sided VHB tapeTM, to ensure that the entire capacitor surface is kept rigid.

Developed by Cornell Dubilier, the PPC is the latest leading-edge capacitor development by the company. These designs have been responsive to market demands for capacitors that provide higher performance while breaking away from traditional cylindrical form factors.