Connector

It's perfectly normal. It's a standard DIN. What's the problem?

IIRC, R P Electronics in BC have those and the sockets.

There are two variations of 8 pin DIN..........one with a narrow gap , one with a wide gap. you have the wide gap version.

The #s don't mean anything to me on their parts. The DIN pole arrangement on one is DIN 41 524(pin-1-5) the other is DIN 45 326.

I'l have to study up on that later.

greg

DIN plugs started off as mono - 1 2 3 with 2 being ground, 1 and 3 in and out (or out and in).

That looks like the 8 pin DIN plug Commodore used on the late production C64 computers, after the video was redesigned to have separate chroma and luminance outputs, (S-Video) and for the 40 column display on the C128 computer. They used the round 7 pin din for the C64 power supply, so they didn't want you to plug it into the video port. Some other companies still use the seven pin DIN plug for external power supplies, so that may be the reason the vendor chose this version.

The real question is why are there two formats, since I can force the larger format into the smaller format receptacle. If they wanted rejection, they should have done a better job. Perhaps my recepticle has a wider tolerance.

greg

Try forcing it in. They usually break from the force. I've replaced a lot of the PCB mounted connectors after someone forece the wrong plug into a Commodore computer.