 This week's iron MPI is from CUI devices. That's right. They've not got a nice new logo. Every single week we explore all the new products as purchased by DigiGeek. And if we call this MPI, new product introduction, what is this week's MPI? Okay. This week's at MPI is from CUI devices. It's their series of DIN rail terminal blocks that are stackable and they come in a variety of sizes. And you might be like DIN blocks. You mean like DIN Jart, the hero of the Mandalorian who also shoots DIN rails out of his blaster. Yeah. Yeah. Disney does everything now. Look, if I have five minutes, I'd like to do a silly little Photoshop. But so you've got DIN rails, which look like that minus the blaster part. And these are a standardized metal railing that is used in servers, electrical work, robotics, automation, and other electronics. A lot of electrical distribution boxes also use these. And by having a standard mounting rail, this is the Wikipedia article, by having a standard mounting rail, basically you avoid the problem of what I used to do, which was just drill some holes in the wall and maybe use some like lag bolts or maybe have a two by four and like things wouldn't be rated for holding stuff and it would get loose. So you attach the DIN rail very solidly to your enclosure or to your wall. And then you can easily slide items on and off the railing. It's like designed very nicely and it's a standardized size. And everyone agrees to use this size. And so you can kind of like mix and match from different suppliers. So, you know, for example, this is the they have a bunch of different ones. But the one we're going to talk about the most is the TBDR-13-25-BK and family and this is a bi-levels of two layer terminal block. And you can see you actually kind of like see into it. It's to keep it slim. Maybe we'll go to the overhead real fast and I can show this. I'll show. So this is actually, I'm going to just go to the demo now. So this is a DIN rail. Let me focus it so it's nice and clear. This is the DIN rail. So I just got like a nice aluminum one, but they're made also out of steel. And you can see that there's got like it's got this C shape that things can slide on. So, you know, you there are ones sometimes you can like bolt onto and make it stronger mechanically. But for the most part, you could just slide things on and off so you can position them and they like pretty much stay in place. And this is two terminal blocks. So I slid them side by side. And then you can slide more just by. Hold on. This is the connector part here. And you hook this on. The only problem is once you do this, it's kind of hard to, you can take it off. You have to slide it off. So it snaps in. And then you push it on to the end. And now you've got three terminal blocks of three distribution blocks. And these come in different sizes. And this is like the smaller version. Sorry, this is the smaller version. And this version, in comparison with this one, so let me slide this back out so I can show you the difference. And we'll talk about them. This one is a distribution. So you see these four connected, these two are connected together and these two are one piece of metal. And then there's this big punk of tint copper that connects between the two. So these are connected together. This one is a grounding style. So you see that these two pieces connect together. So there's like two, you know, push to insert wires. But then the metal comes down and it scrapes up against the railing. So this is a grounding connection. So if you want to have an earth ground, this is one way to do it, then you just earth ground the railing. So it's kind of a little bit of a hack. Use the railing not just as mechanical, but as an electrical earth grounding. Okay, so let's go back to Yeah. So that's din rails. So there's a lot of different families. If you want to buy din rail, FYI, did you key stocks like bazillions of different sizes? Yeah, they have a lot. This is they're all pre cut. If you need to, you don't have to cut it yourself. You don't want to get a hacksaw. There's channel. It's they're made, you know, by every maker to copper, PVC, stainless steel, steel, aluminum, whatever you want galvanized non galvanized. There's different types. There's a couple of different types with slots without lots of like, again, this is very standard. So they have like a thousand different products. And there's also lots of accessories. So we're talking about terminal blocks here and you can see that they have, you know, thousands of terminal blocks and channel, but there's also like accessories and holders. Oh, and then I can just call. So in the chat, so you can mount your din rail to your IKEA pegboard with automotive pusher bits. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes we don't see more just like, I'm going to decorate my home. Oh, actually, I forgot I was going to open this package. So can you go the overhead again? Oh, are we doing an unboxing? Well, I was going to show off. You know, everyone on YouTube was doing unboxings for a while. Maybe we should get into that. So this is, you know, we have them in the store. So this is like a din rail mount for an Arduino Uno. You would plug in your metro or your Arduino and then, you know, it would it has that same done. Did it? Yeah, I don't want to get out of the packaging because it's not going to actually use it, but it has that same plastic, that plastic, you know, hook piece that slides on to the railing. So this would slide in and then you could have terminal blocks. So din rail is very, very popular. I really like it. I have used it in some projects for like robotics where I have to mount like terminal blocks and driver boards and then, you know, onto a body of something and it's, you know, you don't want to, I have everything kind of strewn around. So, so accessories. So these are the CUI devices, product pages. They also have these little plastic pieces. So if you get the right ones that match, because there's different sizes and we'll show you some of the different sizes, there's plastic pieces that match up and will like protect that last piece because you saw like one side is open and the other side is closed. So on the end, you're going to want something to kind of cap it. So they have caps that will fit. I did get a cap, but unfortunately I wasn't paying attention. Didn't realize that there were all different sizes and I got the wrong size, but you'll not be me. You'll get the right size. So this is one, you know, this is again the double layer. So two heights, a grounding version because you can see it has that metal piece that bends down and connects to the railing. And this one is kind of large. It's 68 by 46 millimeters, five millimeters thick. And then they have a kind of short, short, like a short squat version. It's like one layer, also a grounding type. And this one is 68, 69 millimeters by 35. Some of these go down to 14 gauge, some do 12 gauge, all start at 26. So they're, you know, if you're using kind of a standard 22 gauge, 24 gauge wires should be good and they're all rated. So the one I got here, I'll even read on the side, it's CE and UL 500 volts, 22 amps. So these are great for power distribution, but they'll also be fine for data. And this is like the shortest one. This is the smallest size I showed you. It's only got two terminals, but also a grounding connection type. And this one is a petite 48 by 30 millimeter. So, you know, you can mix and match stack, you know, any combo. And then CUI also has a awesome guide with really beautiful images. They have a wonderful, whoever does their web graphics and web design is top notch. A terminal guide, a block to terminal block selection. They have a huge family of terminal blocks. I think this is the first time they've gone into DIN rail compatible blocks, but these are extremely cute slim. They snap on very nicely and they look very nicely made. They look very solid and reliable and a wide range of sizes and wire gauges. Available on DigiKey. And they're in stock. 647. Yeah, there's 18 different terminal blocks, different colors and sizes and configs. And then they also have six or eight of the caps. So it's still not used to everything starting to be that stock again. This is great. All right, good stuff. Another good on MPI. Thank you, very much. Of course.