Overview
These terminal blocks have terminals that hold and release wires through the simple adjustment of a screw, allowing you to easily make temporary connections to a PCB. The 2-pin and 3-pin units each feature a ridge on one side and a slot on the other, which lets them slide and lock together to form arbitrarily long strips with a pitch of 3.5 mm or 5 mm. Each terminal block is available in two orientations: side-entry and top-entry.
The following short video gives a quick overview of how to install these terminal blocks onto our boards:
Details for item #2443
This product is a four-pack of 5mm-pitch, three-pin, top-entry terminal blocks. The more general dimension diagram for an XX-pin version of this screw terminal block is shown below.
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Screw terminal block: 5 mm pitch, top entry. |
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- Voltage rating (UL/IEC): 250/250 V
- Current rating (UL/IEC): 16/24 A
- Contact resistance: 20 mΩ
- Wire gauge: 22-14 AWG
- Wire strip length: 5 mm
Other terminal block options
We carry several different sizes and styles of terminal blocks in addition to these stackable screw terminal blocks; the picture below shows a side-by-side comparison:
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Side-by-side comparison of our different terminal blocks with a 0.1″ male header strip for size reference. From left to right: 0.1″ screwless, 0.1″ screw, 3.5 mm screw, and 5 mm screw. |
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- Screwless (spring) terminal, available in side- and top-entry orientations with pitches of 0.1″ and 0.2″:
- 0.1″ screw terminal, which can be used in place of standard 0.1″male and female headers on many PCBs; the only available orientation is side-entry:
