Patent ID: 7195519

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a housing having a mating end and a loading end; first and second contact wafers to be loaded into the loading end of the housing, the first and second contact wafers each having a dielectric carrier holding a contact therein, the carriers having outer walls, wherein at least one of the outer walls on each of the carriers has a spacer engagement element provided thereon; and a wafer spacer configured to be positioned between the first and second contact wafers in one of different first and second orientations relative to the outer walls of the first and second contact wafers, the wafer spacer having opposed first and second side walls that are separated by a spacer core thickness, the first side wall having a wafer engagement element provided thereon, when the wafer spacer is in the first orientation, the wafer spacer separating the first and second contact wafers by a first distance and, when the wafer spacer is in the second orientation, the wafer spacer separating the first and second contact wafers by a second distance that is greater than the first distance.