New Vandal-Proof Keypad For Secure Switching

Keypads may be specified with 1, 2 3, 4 12 or 16 buttons and are for front or rear mounting on to a flat surface. The keys are available back lit by LED’s with a choice of blue, red, green, white and yellow colour, have a large clear type style on the button faces and there is a choice of casing and button colours. Low profile mounting bezels are available that can be fixed from the rear of the control panel ensuring mounting-screws cannot be accessed by vandals.

The Lorlin KP keypads are manufactured from strong, power coated, die cast zinc, with an anti-pull key design, other finishes are available including brushed chrome and bright silver. The complete keypad is IP rated for weather, water and dust resistance. The switch contacts are rated at 24VDC @ 20mA and are reliability tested to 4,000,000 cycles per key. Electrical connection is to 2.5 mm pitch PCB terminals and a suitable cable connector and the keypad is RoHS and CE compliant. Operating temperature range of the keypad is –40°C to +80°C and it is impact resistant to 20 joules via a 50mm Ø steel impactor.

Dan Walker, Sales Manager at Lorlin Electronics comments. ”Our new KP vandal and environmental proof keypads open up a new market for Lorlin in the security access market. We have a number of customers and distributors asking for vandal proof keypads and we are very pleased to be introducing our own product to satisfy this market.”