wcndave
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Does anyone know what kind of connector this is, I can't find anything anywhere that seems to match!
Power plug identification help
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okeydokey
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Hi
Well Ive just done a good few image searches without success
Could you post a few more overall photos of the item as knowing what its part of might help
Well Ive just done a good few image searches without success
Could you post a few more overall photos of the item as knowing what its part of might help
guineafowl21
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Given the 120V and French/English text I was thinking Canada, but they have a round earth pin.
Can’t find that from googling “worldwide plug standards”, so I would be tempted to bypass that and fit a pigtail lead*. Also, those terminals look corroded and flimsy anyway.
* Edit: I see you’re in Italy. Where will you get 120V?
Can’t find that from googling “worldwide plug standards”, so I would be tempted to bypass that and fit a pigtail lead*. Also, those terminals look corroded and flimsy anyway.
* Edit: I see you’re in Italy. Where will you get 120V?
robgul
Barry Bucknell is my hero
Is the middle pin a half-round-ish/fluted shape? (Pic isn't that clear) - if it is then it's probably an older style North Amercian plug - the current (sorry!) type has two flat pins for the juice and a round pin for the earth (when there's an earth required).
It looks like it might belong in this history
https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/ApplConn_precursors-IEC60320.html
But the apparent orientation of the blades is throwing me too.
I'm also wondering same as Rob whether this could be Canadian and the middle pin is not flat as it sort of looks but flat bent into a u shape in which case an old Canadian mains connector.
Clearly this is the appliance mains inlet and power would be supplied from a female plug on the end of a power cord like a kettle lead.
https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/ApplConn_precursors-IEC60320.html
But the apparent orientation of the blades is throwing me too.
I'm also wondering same as Rob whether this could be Canadian and the middle pin is not flat as it sort of looks but flat bent into a u shape in which case an old Canadian mains connector.
Clearly this is the appliance mains inlet and power would be supplied from a female plug on the end of a power cord like a kettle lead.
Phil Pascoe
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You would hope so.
wcndave
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So this came from a friend, asking me because I have lot of adaptors, being a Brit living in Italy.....
Also I have racks of computers, so things like C19 leads...
He tells me it's a snowblower.
He has a 120v converter already
It appears to be Canadian as you worked out, the label on the motor is all Canadian...
I didn't see anything on that Museum page that matched.
I think they use to have a flat earth pin, and now they are using round - so it might be hard to adapt this!
Also I have racks of computers, so things like C19 leads...
He tells me it's a snowblower.
He has a 120v converter already
It appears to be Canadian as you worked out, the label on the motor is all Canadian...
I didn't see anything on that Museum page that matched.
I think they use to have a flat earth pin, and now they are using round - so it might be hard to adapt this!
Given the state of it... donate to the museum
