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That is the rated durability of an off the shelf connector from the same supplier. Two notes on this:
- We’re developing our own semi-custom connector with the supplier specifically to make it better for end-user handling.
- The cycle life in datasheets is rarely comprehensive. We’ve had instances where the datasheet on a connector (I think it was a pogo connector) said 100 cycles, and we asked the supplier to retest to 2000 cycles and found the connector passed that too.