LEMO connector for headsets

[larryj]

Does anyone know the part numbers for the LEMO style connectors that are slowly becoming the adopted standard for ship-powered ANR headsets?? Of particular interest to me would be metal shelled female panel mount for the airframe; plastic male to wire (preferably pre-molded); and plastic female to wire (again preferably pre-molded).
My plan is to install the panel mount connectors in the airframe; install a 10" long pigtail with a modified male plastic connector (modification being filing/sanding down the locking tangs so that it can be pulled apart with a little force) to my helmet/headset; and then a patch cord about 24" long to hook the two together. This gives me a breakaway feature close to the helmet/headset and no battery packs etc. floating around in the cockpit. I want to first put this in my Super Decathlon and if I like it I'll put it in the Rocket. I'm after connector part numbers if anyone knows them or knows where to find them.
Thanks!!!

[vlittle]

Only twice in my life have I had to use Lemo connectors: once when I was working at a nuclear research lab; the second when I needed a jack for my ANR headphones in my Rocket, 35 years later.

Mouser.com supplies Lemo parts, but it was cheaper for me to by the panel mount connectors with pigtails from Aircraft Spruce. To do what you want is going to cost a couple of hundred dollars!

Search on Mouser for 6-pin Lemo, that should be a start.

V

[larryj]

Here is the answer:

Plug: PAG.M0.6NL.AC65NZ
(bend relief ordered separately: GMA.1B.054.DN -- see attached P-series catalog page#22 for details)
http://intra.lemo.ch/PartSearch?part=PAG.M0.6NL.AC65NZ

Inline receptacle: PRG.M0.6NL.LC65N
http://intra.lemo.ch/PartSearch?part=PRG.M0.6NL.LC65N

Panel mount receptacle: PTG.M0.6NL.LC65N
http://intra.lemo.ch/PartSearch?part=PTG.M0.6NL.LC65N


For metal version we currently only have a plug (data sheet attached)...
PGG.M0.6CL.AC52C
(See attached file: Flyer_PGG_en Metal Redel.pdf)

The full line catalog for the 1P series link is
below:
http://intra.lemo.ch/catalog//ROW/UK...es_catalog.pdf


For pricing and delivery information please see the attached listing
of Authorized LEMO Distributors:

http://intra.lemo.ch/catalog/USA/USA..._LEMO_list.pdf

[Noah]

I have been thinking of putting a LEMO connector on my ride-on lawn mower. That thing is incredibly loud, and I bet it would be sweet with ANR! Anybody done this??

I know SOMEBODY has to have a spare LEMO connector they want to get rid of!

[AaronG]

Larry,

I have the problem with my kids regularly breaking the lemo plugs on my bose headsets. The Bose solution is replacement of the entire power cord and mic at close to $200. Do you happen to know if the male plug number referenced above could be used to replace a bose plug? I have no problem soldering or crimping on a new plug as long as it is compatible.

Aaron

[larryj]

Aaron,
Short answer is yes. I contacted Bose; who sent me to Lemo; and the info posted was a cut-and-paste from the email directly from Lemo tech support.

Be careful though; the "normal" Lemo connectors easily available here in the States are not interchangeable with these connectors. These are "Redel / Lemo" connectors produced in the UK. For some reason Bose chose to spec these connectors (I believe is was most likely price-point) so they are what we are stuck with. You will notice there is a metal version of the plug available; this may help you with your problem.