ILME CKF ILME Heavy-Duty Rectangular Connectors

Razz Middle East supplies ILME heavy-duty rectangular connectors in Saudi Arabia. The family covers hoods, bulkhead and surface-mounting housings, multipole inserts and the crimp or screw contacts that go into them. Items such as CX modular inserts and MKA, CKSF and MHO housings are sourced to order and delivered duty-paid to site.

ILME CKF

This page covers ILME part number CKF — ILME Heavy-Duty Rectangular Connectors. Quote the full part number with your enquiry and the item is unambiguous: one part number identifies one exact product variant, including options that are not visible in the description.

About ILME Heavy-Duty Rectangular Connectors

A heavy-duty rectangular connector is assembled from separate parts, not bought as one piece. A metal hood or housing gives mechanical protection and the cable entry; an insert carries the actual poles; contacts are crimped or screwed to the conductors and loaded into the insert. ILME organises these by frame size, so a hood, a housing and an insert only fit together if they share the same size class. Inserts are specified by pole count, current and voltage rating, and termination style, and CX codes identify modular inserts that let several different module types share one frame. Housing codes such as MKA, CKSF and MHO distinguish bulkhead-mounted bases, surface-mounted bases and hoods, along with cable entry thread and locking lever arrangement. Because the poles are numbered, a mating pair must use inserts of the same layout with male contacts on one side and female on the other.

ILME Heavy-Duty Rectangular Connectors in Saudi Arabia

Rectangular multipole connectors are used wherever a machine or panel has to be disconnected as a unit. In Saudi Arabia that means modular skids and conveyor sections shipped to site and plugged together, machine tools and packaging lines, crane and hoist festoon systems, and control panels for water treatment and pumping plants. Contractors building modular equipment for Jubail and Yanbu, for cement plants and for construction at NEOM and along the Red Sea coast use them to cut site wiring time. Outdoors and in dusty conditions the housing gasket and cable gland do the sealing work, so the entry thread and gland size matter as much as the electrical rating. Circuits are typically 380/400 V, 60 Hz power plus 24 V DC control in the same connector frame. Spare inserts and contacts are normally ordered with the housings.

Ordering and lead time

Order each part of the connector separately and state the frame size for all of them. A complete assembly usually needs a hood or housing, an insert, and the matching contacts, and the male and female sides are ordered as different codes. Give the pole count, termination method, cable entry thread, and whether the housing is a bulkhead base, a surface base or a hood. When extending an existing installation, take the codes from the parts already fitted, since frames of different sizes will not latch together. ILME items here are sourced to order with a lead time of about three weeks and delivered duty-paid to site. Contacts are supplied loose and are ordered by conductor cross-section and quantity.

Specifications are taken from the supplier's published catalogue data. Confirm against the manufacturer's current datasheet before ordering.