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Deutsch Autosport AS 61-Way Plug — Socket (Female) — Green Key (D)

The Deutsch Autosport AS 61-Way Plug Socket (Female) Connector with Green (D) Keying Insert — SKU: AS624-61PD is a professional MIL-spec-grade Deutsch Autosport AS series connector for high-density full ECU harness separable joins and complex multi-circuit race car loom interfaces in race cars and high-performance vehicles across Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. As a plug connector, the 61-way AS provides a very high-density free plug half for complete ECU harness and PDM system separable joins in complex full race car loom builds.

Deutsch Autosport AS 61-Way — Series Design and Circuit Application

The Deutsch Autosport AS series is the professional standard circular connector format for motorsport wiring — featuring an aluminium alloy shell machined to MIL-spec tolerances, gold-plated contact interfaces for consistent low-resistance electrical performance across the connector’s service life, and a positive push-pull locking mechanism that holds secure under sustained race vibration and rapid connector cycling at service intervals. The 61-way AS delivers a very high circuit count for complete ECU main harness and PDM system separable joins — used where the 55-circuit count is insufficient and the full ECU harness must cross a single separable join interface.

Socket (Female) — 61-Circuit Contact Array

This listing is the socket half of the 61-way AS plug pair. Sixty-one socket contacts receive sixty-one individual pin contacts — the receptacle half of one of the highest circuit count connectors in the Deutsch Autosport AS series. The corresponding pin half of the same circuit count and key colour is required to complete the mated connector pair — both halves must be ordered to form a functional separable join. AS contacts are ordered separately; select the correct contact part number for your wire gauge and current requirements.

Green Key (D) — Keying Position and Mis-Mate Prevention

Green D completes the four-key set at a plug separation point carrying four parallel 61-circuit bundles. When a harness includes multiple 61-circuit AS plug connectors at the same separation point — for example, where two parallel 61-circuit cable bundles each have their own plug connector mating into a fixed receptacle panel — keying ensures each plug can only connect to its own correct receptacle, preventing cross-connection during harness assembly and race event connector operations. With all four keys assigned (Yellow A, Blue B, Orange C, Green D), four physically identical 61-circuit AS plug connectors can operate at the same separation point with complete mis-mate prevention under all conditions — the maximum keying complexity available in the Deutsch AS system.

Plug Configuration — The Movable, Cable-Mounted Connector Half

The AS plug configuration is a free, cable-mounted connector half — it does not mount to a panel or chassis surface. Instead, the plug is the movable, harness-side half that disconnects from a fixed receptacle (either a flange-mounted panel connector or a corresponding inline half) to allow component removal, harness separation, and servicing. The plug carries the cable bundle from the removable component or sub-harness and mates into the fixed chassis-side or loom-side receptacle when the system is assembled.

The 61-way AS plug is used for very high-density full ECU harness and complex race loom removable separable joins in race cars and performance vehicles across Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The plug format is specified wherever one connector half must be freely movable — for example, at engine removal points where the engine-side harness plug disconnects from the chassis-side flange, at removable dashboard assemblies where the instrument harness plug mates into a fixed bulkhead connector, and at any harness separation point where the plug side follows a removable component when it is extracted from the vehicle.

Unlike flange or inline connectors that create a two-sided free connection, the AS plug is always the movable half in a plug-to-receptacle pair — providing the connector architecture needed for clean, repeatable component removal and installation across the race service life of the vehicle.

Technical Specifications

• Series: Deutsch Autosport AS
• Circuits: 61-way
• Configuration: Plug
• Contact type: Socket (Female)
• Key colour: Green (Key D)
• Shell material: Aluminium alloy
• Operating temperature: -65°C to +175°C
• Locking: Push-pull positive lock
• Typical application: Fourth connector at a separation point using the full four-key set — the most complex keying arrangement in the deutsch as system