Aincent B&K power cord info???

Find three solderable pins that will mate to the unit, stick them through a piece of paper onto the pins, and sculpt a little connector body out of epoxy putty.

You could do it with crimp pins, but you'd have to crimp the wires on before you cement them into a connector, which might be a PITA.

Good Luck! Rich

Hello Don,

My workaround in such cases is often to remove it and mount of a little box over the opening. That box then holds a nice solid IEC connector or something else that is popular and complies with code. While at it I sometimes add proper fuses and toroids to muffle conducted EMI.

Regards, Joerg

Don Lancaster wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

Don, have you asked Bruel & Kjaer? They have an office in Atlanta. Can you retrofit an IEC connector?

Try these places:

I've got a ~1973 Systron Donner frequency counter (nixies!) that has a

3-pin cord. I don't know if it's the HP type you mention or the B&K type. I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but the other half borrowed the digital camera... if you want a picture, I can get one tomorrow. Here goes:

The 3-pin connector on the cord is a rectangle with rounded corners, about 25 mm x 13 mm. The hot and neutral sockets are centered on the

13 mm dimension, while the ground socket is about 3 mm off center. The ground socket is centered on the 25 mm dimension while the hot and neutral sockets are about 8 mm either side of the center. The sockets themselves are about 3 mm ID. The metal doesn't extend all the way to the surface but is recessed about 1.5 mm. Between the edge of the metal and the surface is a paper? sleeve that looks like it extends over the body of the socket. The ID and edge of all three paper sleeves are natural, while the OD of the hot and neutral sleeves seems to be red. The OD of the ground sleeve might be green. The number 8 and a logo that looks like a spiral next to a straight line are molded into the face of the connector. The cord is marked (among other things) "18-3 SVT 60C". The other end has a normal 5-15P plug. The cord still has a small paper tag on it marked "BELDEN C S.54 (CSA logo) CORD SET CORDON AMOVIBLE 7 AMP. 125 V. 875 W. LL30830 BELDEN C".

Would one of the three-round-pin connectors (IEC-60320-C5) used on some newer laptop power supplies possibly fit? One problem is that I think this connector uses two different size sockets.

Matt Roberds

Never mind... I just Googled up a picture of the HP type at

and that is exactly what I have. Although you might ask Sphere about it; they seem to have assorted parts for older test equipment.

Matt Roberds

The B&K name is also used by an american test equipment manufacturer