ECN Electrical Forum - Discussion Forums for Electricians, Inspectors and Related Professionals

>> Home   >> Electrical-Photos   >> Classifieds   >> Subscribe to Newsletter   >> Store  
 

Photos of the Week:

1913 Electricians Handbook
1913 Electricians Handbook

Random Gallery Image:
Recent Gallery Topics:
What in Tarnation?
What in Tarnation?
by timmp, September 10
Plumber meets Electrician
Plumber meets Electrician
by timmp, September 10
Who's Online Now
0 members (), 325 guests, and 19 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Rate Thread
#210524 07/07/13 07:49 AM
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 2,506
Likes: 1
T
Member
Yesterday I helped clear out an old DIYer's workshop and found a plug I couldn't make sense of. It's a rather small angle plug (small by European standards), the face is about 3.5 cm square. The 4 round pins are very thin, only around 2 mm and maybe 10 mm long. There are hardly any markings, but the screw terminals inside are marked R, Y, GN, BK. The only interpretation that comes to my mind is red, yellow, green and black, which sounds like phone wiring. The screws look decidedly un-metric, or if they are, the number of threads is non-standard (coarser than the average M3). If plugged in with the cable exiting at the bottom, the top pins are spaced closer together than the bottom ones, i.e. the plug is polarised.

Any ideas what that could be? I can take pictures and exact measurements later.

Horizontal Ad
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 7,413
Likes: 8
Member
Sounds like an old telco (phone) jack.


John
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,440
Member
Sounds exactly like our old telephone plugs here in the states...

[Linked Image from smcelectronics.com]

Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 5,476
Likes: 3
Cat Servant
Member
I agree -I remember those plugs in a round form, without the jack shown in the picture.

Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 826
Likes: 1
J
Member
Yep, Red and green were Tip and Ring. Black and yellow were often hooked to a small wall transformer to illuminate the dial of a "Princess" telephone.

Lostazhell #210559 07/09/13 09:31 AM
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 2,506
Likes: 1
T
Member
Originally Posted by Lostazhell
Sounds exactly like our old telephone plugs here in the states...

[Linked Image from smcelectronics.com]

Exactly, that's it! Wonder how that one made its way to Europe. Maybe someone brought a phone over from the states and then changed the plug to make it work here.


Link Copied to Clipboard
New Page 2
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5