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Minimize your product’s production risk and time to market by letting Grayhill’s experts quickly and efficiently build the perfect front panel sub-assembly for your product.  Grayhill leverages our proprietary stage-gate development process to ensure that your custom front panel is properly designed, laboratory qualified and manufactured to optimize your specific application.

Grayhill’s team collaborates with your team to choose the proper switching technology, outline the proper packaging and mounting, and design any electrical and/or protocol interface.


Electronics

Grayhill often designs and integrates electronics to provide typical interfaces such as PC Keyboard, CAN Bus, LIN Bus, RS232 at various levels and various protocols.  These electronics can scan the keypads, drive the LCDs, drive indicators and control a buzzer.  Using our in-house pick-and-place manufacturing facilities, this electronics is typically assembled on the back side of the contact PCB.  This provides a very robust and cost-effective product.

EXAMPLE PROJECTS

Custom Bezel and Keypad Active Matrix LCD with Industrial Touchscreen Integrated USB Hub Integrated Grayhill Encoder LED Indicator Control All Controlled by Grayhill Firmware and Electronics

1U Front Panel Integrated Negative Mode LCD Custom Membrane Keypad/Overlay VT100 Style Communication Protocol All Controlled by Grayhill Firmware and Electronics

Custom Bezel and Keypad Integrated LCDs LED Indicator Control All Controlled by Grayhill Firmware and Electronics

Custom Bezel and Membrane Keypad Custom Graphic Reverse Mode LCD LED Indicator Control All Controlled by Grayhill Firmware and Electronics

Typical Switching Technologies Used in Custom Front Panels

Grayhill Proprietary Gold Plated Metal Dome

• Excellent Tactile Feel
• 3 Million Cycle Operational Life
• Low Contact Resistance

Conductive Rubber

• Paired with Gold PCB Contacts for Increased Robustness
• 3 Million Cycle Operational Life

Piezo

• Ultimate Ruggedness and Vandal Resistance
• Proprietary Bonding Technology allows for Increased Temperature Ranges

Applications

Grayhill’s Custom Keypads have been used in many applications such as:

• Test and Measurement Equipment
• Power Meters
• Telecom
• Military