Patent ID: 7175445

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising; a dielectric housing having a plurality of slots therein, and a plurality of contacts disposed within of said slots; a plurality of electrical wafers, each of said electrical wafers being received in one of said plurality of slots, each said wafer having a first edge and a second edge, some of said plurality of electrical wafers being signal wafers and some of said plurality of wafers being power wafers, each of said power wafers including first and second power contact pads located at said first and second edges, respectively, said power wafer including a power trace extending between said first and second power contact pads, said second power contact pad mating with at least two of said plurality of contacts to transfer a predetermined amount of current through said power trace between said first and second power contact pads; and a sense line trace on at least one of said power wafers, said sense line trace configured to unmate first when the connector is being unmated to indicate a condition of the connector.