Seasonal ELV outdoor plug/socket question

[ban-all-sheds]

I remember checking.

I remember finding out that I didn't have any/enough.

I remember buying some in a local shop, which were not the right sort, and returning them.

I remember finding an online supplier.

So I've remembered 4/5 - surely you can manage the last one?

 

[JohnW2]

I remember checking. I remember finding out that I didn't have any/enough. I remember buying some in a local shop, which were not the right sort, and returning them.

I guess they must have been the ones to which you were referring when you wrote (presumably before discovering that they were the wrong type, and hence returning them):

I need to get them down before xmas as I want to check if some spare lamps I bought are the right type, so I'll have another look.

... but you subsequently wrote nothing more about spare lamps - so, as for ....

I remember finding an online supplier. So I've remembered 4/5 - surely you can manage the last one?

...I'm afraid no-one can help with the remembering other than yourself!

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

B*****d.

 

[SUNRAY]

I don't think I've seen an actual 2-pin DIN on Christmas lights, but the same sort of (maybe identical) pin layout (one flat 'pin' and one thin circular one)

Kind Regards, John

Yes that is a 2 pin DIN, its the layout of the pins that count, not the cover

 

[JohnW2]

I don't think I've seen an actual 2-pin DIN on Christmas lights, but the same sort of (maybe identical) pin layout (one flat 'pin' and one thin circular one) ...

Yes that is a 2 pin DIN, its the layout of the pins that count, not the cover

Fair enough - but the Christmas lights ones often have a plastic 'lug' alongside, and close to, the flat pin, so they wouldn't mate with a standard 2-pin DIN socket.

Kind Regards, John

 

[SUNRAY]

I don't think I've seen an actual 2-pin DIN on Christmas lights, but the same sort of (maybe identical) pin layout (one flat 'pin' and one thin circular one) ...

Yes that is a 2 pin DIN, its the layout of the pins that count, not the cover

Fair enough - but the Christmas lights ones often have a plastic 'lug' alongside, and close to, the flat pin, so they wouldn't mate with a standard 2-pin DIN socket.

Kind Regards, John

Fair comment, I haven't come aross it yet