Can I convert round 3 pin socket to standard socket

[EFLImpudence]

Isn't Google wonderful.

Apparently it's a 'bulgin female socket'.

I can't think of anything to say.

 

[AndyPRK]

Yeah a bulgin. I know them for use with 400Hz

 

[JohnW2]

Isn't Google wonderful. ... Apparently it's a 'bulgin female socket'. .... I can't think of anything to say.

To be serious, is the piccie misleading me? It looks like (recessed) pins I can see, in which case it would surely be a 'male', wouldn't it?

Kind Regards, John

 

[EFLImpudence]

Serious ?

I do believe you are correct. Google not so wonderful.

I'd rather not think of a bulgin male socket.

 

[JohnW2]

I do believe you are correct. Google not so wonderful. <ne pic>

Now that's a female one. I can recognise females!

I'd rather not think of a bulgin male socket.

I can understand that

Kind Regards, John

 

[plugwash]

It's a male panel mount 8-pin mains connector from bulgin. It probablly has multiple uses in different applications but the one i'm aware of is as an inlet on boxes with multiple lights to connect them to a light sequencer. I don't remember the exact part number offhand.

I would advise against using the terms plug and socket when talking about such connectors as they are likely to confuse.

Older kit used female connectors on both the light sequencer and the light box and then used a male to male cable to connect them together but that was later deemed unsafe.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I'd rather not think of a bulgin male socket.

You'd rather think of bulgin male plugs, wouldn't you...