bisco Expands Online Catalog by Over 2.5 Million Products
Your One-Stop-Shop
Over the past six months bisco industries has added over 2.5 million products to its online catalog. The expansion of our online catalog provides engineers and purchasing agents with additional flexibility to find solutions for current and upcoming projects. Users can now search and filter newly added products by part number, product description, dimensions, and many other attributes.
What is a LED Light Pipe?
Light pipes, often called LED light pipes because of their use with LEDs, are physical structures (either a transparent plastic rod or an optical fiber) that are used for transmitting light lengthwise. Integrating LED light pipes is an extremely cost effective option that helps eliminate the multiple steps associated with transporting light from one location to another. Light pipes transmit up to 80% of emitted light making them useful for a broad range of applications including security equipment, medical devices, and communications equipment.
What is a Standoff?
Standoff Fastener Description
Standoffs are fasteners used to create space between printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies and are the standard fastener for mounting PCBs to prevent electrical shorts. Standoffs are similar to spacers but differ in that they are threaded.
Standoff Fastener Styles
Standoffs may be cylindrical, square or hexagonal in shape and come in male, female, male-male, or male-female styles. Standoffs are fabricated from various materials such as aluminum, brass, stainless steel and nylon. In addition, standoffs are often plated to meet application specific requirements.
Standoff Fastener Application Example
One application example for standoffs is the fastening of a motherboard (PCB) to a metal enclosure. In a typical scenario, male-female standoffs are fastened into pre-drilled metal ringed screw holes in the motherboard while the opposite end of the standoff is fastened to the enclosure wall. Mounting the motherboard in this manner prevents it from short circuiting.
Standoff Fastener Manufacturers
- Accurate Screw Machine (ASM)
- Amatom
- Bivar
- Concord Electronics
- ITW Fastex
- Keystone Electronics
- Lyn-Tron
- RAF Electronic Hardware
Configuring Standoff Fasteners
Since standoffs come in so many styles, sizes, and materials configuring the correct standoff for your application can be challenging. To aid you in configuring standoffs and other electronic hardware bisco has recently updated it’s RAF product catalog. Users can now browse and filter standoffs by style, material, diameter, length, thread size, and finish. Visit bisco’s online RAF product selector to learn more.
Manufacturer Profile: Bivar
Since their first product launch in 1965, Bivar has been a leader in the manufacturing of LED indication products and enclosure hardware. Bivar prides themselves on helping designers, engineers, and purchasers stay at the forefront of technology. Bivar products are used extensively in telecom/datacom applications, medical applications, industrial applications, and other electronic applications.
Bivar LEDs & Enclosure Hardware
Bivar strategically manufacturers both LEDs and associated electronic hardware allowing users to spec in multiple components from one manufacturer. Bivar’s LED indication solutions are highly configurable and are critical to enhancing machine-to-human communication in numerous applications. Bivar’s extensive selection of LED indication products includes:
- LED Light Pipes
- Through Hole Mount LEDs
- Surface Mount LEDs
- Panel Mount LED Assemblies
- Board Mount LED Assemblies
Bivar’s electronic enclosure hardware is designed for precise alignment and component placement. Bivar enclosure hardware includes:
- LED Mounts & Holders
- PCB Standoffs
- PCB Spacers
- PCB Card Guides
- PCB Inserters & Extractors
- Subrack Accessories
bisco – Authorized Bivar Distributor
bisco industries is an authorized Bivar distributor and stocks hundreds of Bivar LEDs and electronic hardware components. bisco also offers a large selection of complementary items from enclosures to fuses. To find stock and get pricing for all your Bivar and electronic component needs visit biscoind.com.
What is a PCB Card Guide?
Printed circuit board (PCB) card guides, also called PCB retainers, are short narrow strips of material formed into shallow tapered troughs. PC boards are inserted into the top of the trough while the bottom is secured to an enclosure wall. Most card guides secure the PCB in place through the use of pressure but some card guides utilize levers or screws to lock the PCB in place. Card guides are fabricated from a variety of materials including nylon, aluminum, beryllium copper, and stainless steel. By securing circuit boards in place, card guides prevent damage to PCBs caused by vibration and movement.
The Top Names in Card Guides
For many years Pentair, under their Schroff, Birtcher, and Calmark brands, has been the leading manufacturer of PCB card guides. In fact, many of their branded products such as Wedge Tainers, Lok Tainers, PCB Tainers, and Card Loks have become synonymous with PCB card guides. Other top card guide manufacturers include Bivar, Essentra (formerly Richco), and Keystone Electronics.
Learn More About PCB Card Guides
Check out these helpful catalogs from Calmark, Birtcher, and Keystone to learn more about PCB card guides. As always, bisco representatives are standing by to assist you in configuring products, locating crosses, and finding price and availability information.
9 Card Guide and Ejector Brands from bisco industries
bisco industries is a master distributor of electronic components and fasteners. We offer stock on over 200 product lines and are an authorized distributor for over 150 manufacturers.
bisco carries a wide variety of printed circuit broad (PCB) hardware including card guides and ejectors. PCB card guides are used to mount circuit boards in constricted spaces, such as a rack. PCB ejectors and extractors are mounted directly onto the board, providing a handle for technicians to pull the board without touching any of the circuitry.
bisco industries offers PCB card guides and ejectors from the industry’s top manufacturers including:
- Atlee
- Birtcher (Pentair)
- Bivar
- Calmark (Pentair)
- Innovative Plastics
- Essentra (Formerly Richco)
- Schroff (Pentair)
- Teknational
- Vero Technologies
Don’t forget that bisco also supplies heat sinks, fans, batteries, spacers, standoffs, component holders, fuses, brackets, potentiometers, switches, and relays, making us your one-stop-shop for PCB hardware. In fact, the printed circuit board industry is the second largest industry group that bisco serves. Let us put our product knowledge and industry-leading quality processes to work for you. Visit biscoind.com or contact our e-commerce team for immediate quotes.
bisco industries Blog 