Connectors are critical components of many electrical products and designs and are responsible for carrying signals between different parts of your system, connecting testing solutions to equipment, and holding products in place during testing cycles. While these might seem like small parts, connectors perform an important role in the electrical testing process and allow users to accurately read whether electrical systems are functioning as desired. Test Products Inc. is a step above the rest when it comes to connectors and offers customers a wide range of top-of-the-line Michigan-made products for your unique electrical testing needs.

The two most common, and most destructive, problems with connectors are malfunction and poor handling. As with every electrical component, using poor-quality or malfunctioning connectors, or failing to use connectors properly, can have serious consequences. Sub-par connectors can lead to false readings that can severely influence the integrity of products and can compromise the entire assembly line. To accommodate maintenance or replacement, production must halt, productivity decreases, and employee labor rates are seriously affected.

Even if connectors seem high-quality on the surface, malfunctions can easily occur if they are not properly handled. For example, bent pins are a common occurrence that results in a lack of conductivity, and are often caused by operators being too rough with their insertion and jamming the connectors unnecessarily. These bent pins can, in turn, cause false readings that lead to safety risks and equipment failure. This type of oversight leads to inaccurate electrical testing that not only compromises the quality of the products being tested, but also the integrity of the OEM supplier itself. Delivering improperly tested products to customers can cause customer dissatisfaction, recalls, and costly replacements.

Test Products Inc. avoids these expensive and inefficient problems by using high quality materials such as nylon and delrin that are durable and less prone to breakage. Furthermore, this company employs experienced talent that handles connectors with care and precision throughout the assembly line and testing process, thus reducing the risk of misuse. Furthermore, TPI designs connectors with customer usability and maintenance in mind to ensure that customers can screw in, automate, and repair connectors as easily as possible when needed.

The importance of high quality and functioning connectors cannot be overstated. That’s why it’s crucial to utilize an electrical testing supplier that is knowledgeable about how to properly gauge the efficacy of connectors (and all associated parts such as pins, shells, and wires), as well as handle these components with care to guarantee that electrical testing solutions are up to par.

Test Products, Inc. (TPI) has provided custom and patented solutions for the electrical testing industry for decades due to its ability to customize testing systems to fit each client’s unique needs. TPI focuses on creating a testing plan as a final step to validate and verify the smallest sub-system to the entire final assembled product to assure it arrives as promised to the customer and that you are producing it with the highest throughput and profitability.