Vehicle "Euro" connector

[Jim Backus]

I've recently come across a 3 pin accessory socket for 12 V equipment
fitted on some vehicles. Apparently this is known as a "Euro" socket.
Is anyone familiar with this? If so can they tell me what the standard
pin-out is or where to find out.

TIA

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"Jim Backus" <jhb@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

I've recently come across a 3 pin accessory socket for 12 V equipment
fitted on some vehicles.

It's not the airline standard "seat-power outlet" is it?

 

[Jim Backus]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 13:16:03 UTC, William P.N. Smith wrote:

"Jim Backus" <jhb@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
I've recently come across a 3 pin accessory socket for 12 V equipment
fitted on some vehicles.

It's not the airline standard "seat-power outlet" is it?

I'm not familiar with that either.

The ones I've seen are fitted to agricultural tractors. The connector
has three pins in an isoceles triangle with an obtuse angle at the top
pin. The pins are about 3 mm diameter, perhaps 10 mm long with an
overall plastic shround providing some protection to the pins.

One of the tractors appears to have 4 different power outlets:
4 mm binding posts,
cigarette lighter,
another common coaxial power outlet
the "Euro" connector that is the subject of this thread
.... so much for standardisation!

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"Jim Backus" <jhb@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

William P.N. Smith wrote:
It's not the airline standard "seat-power outlet" is it?

I'm not familiar with that either.

There's a poor picture of one at
http://members.sparedollar.com/magicvalue/airlineadapter.jpg (as part
of a cigarette lighter adapter.

 

[Jim Backus]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:06:04 UTC, William P.N. Smith wrote:

"Jim Backus" <jhb@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
William P.N. Smith wrote:
It's not the airline standard "seat-power outlet" is it?

I'm not familiar with that either.

There's a poor picture of one at
http://members.sparedollar.com/magicvalue/airlineadapter.jpg (as part
of a cigarette lighter adapter.

Thanks for your help and the URL. It doesn't look like the connector
on the tractor. I'll post a picture of it in the next week or so.

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[Peter A Forbes]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:26:16 +0000 (UTC), "Jim Backus" <jhb@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:06:04 UTC, William P.N. Smith wrote:

"Jim Backus" <jhb@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
William P.N. Smith wrote:
It's not the airline standard "seat-power outlet" is it?

I'm not familiar with that either.

There's a poor picture of one at
http://members.sparedollar.com/magicvalue/airlineadapter.jpg (as part
of a cigarette lighter adapter.


Thanks for your help and the URL. It doesn't look like the connector
on the tractor. I'll post a picture of it in the next week or so.

Belling-Lee made a small 3-pin shrouded mains connector like you have described.

It was available up until they went out of business a few years ago.

We have some right-angle plugs IIRC in the stores, but they are quite small,
probably an inch or so across the whole thing and the pins I think were a bit
smaller than 3mm.

The other option is the standard 5A mains socket, but that was slightly bigger,
or the BS4343 mains connectors which are colour coded for voltage.

If you can post a picture somewhere it would help.

Peter

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[Jim Backus]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 06:55:03 UTC, Peter A Forbes <diesel@easynet.co.uk>
wrote:

If you can post a picture somewhere it would help.

I'll take a picture the next time I can - probably about a week's time
- and will post it to alt.binaries.scematics.electronics.

What I really want to know is whether there is a standard use of the
pins for 0, +12 volts.

I'm familiar with a variety of old 3 pin connectors that were used for
mains on British equipment before the IEC (aka kettle) connector
became standard, but it isn't any of those.

Thanks to all.

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[Peter A Forbes]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 21:59:06 +0000 (UTC), "Jim Backus" <jhb@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 06:55:03 UTC, Peter A Forbes <diesel@easynet.co.uk
wrote:

If you can post a picture somewhere it would help.


I'll take a picture the next time I can - probably about a week's time
- and will post it to alt.binaries.scematics.electronics.

What I really want to know is whether there is a standard use of the
pins for 0, +12 volts.

I'm familiar with a variety of old 3 pin connectors that were used for
mains on British equipment before the IEC (aka kettle) connector
became standard, but it isn't any of those.

Thanks to all.

Give me a shout directly if you can whgen you post the picture, I'll miss the
post otherwise as I'll be away and only on email.

Peter

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