These connectors provide the ease and reliability of HotShoe style mating with the added benefit of integral filtering.

Rapid Mate connectors offer mating via spring loaded, compliant contacts. This method provides rapid connection with low mating force and allows for some misalignment during mating. These contacts also provide positive mating force to ensure reliable connection.

API can design a filtered, Rapid Mate connector, specifically for each application, providing the advantages of HotShoe style mating with required filtering to ensure system functionality in electronic interference prone environments.