BIRNS made an enormous splash at Oceanology Worldwide in London final week on the firm’s Energy Ahead occasion, with the celebration of the corporate’s seventieth anniversary, and the launch of an all new excessive amperage subsea connector collection, the 225 Amp BIRNS Meridian line.
The Meridian line, a strong, customized engineered dry-mate connector collection is open face rated to 6km, and is well-suited for battery packs and thrusters for crewed and uncrewed subsea automobiles that require excessive amperage energy switch.
Choose sizes are already being DNV type-approved for 6km rated crewed submersibles. BIRNS Meridians are compact, and have a number of pin configurations, with extra in design for launch later this 12 months. The M40 pin configuration has a single 85 sq. millimeter/3-000 contact. Each commonplace and reverse gender variations are featured within the collection, and all face up to reverse strain, too, and might be put in into each dry and oil-filled canisters.
The brand new connector line has various unique design options to create ease of use and mating, together with a tactile alignment index ridge and arrows indicating the first key place. The receptacles additionally function a blue coloration band on the shell, which permits customers to have a powerful visible indicator {that a} connector pair has been totally mated.