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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: tmx3 on December 27, 2008, 04:03:16 pm

Title: quick quesion- what is the name for this type of cable/socket?
Post by: tmx3 on December 27, 2008, 04:03:16 pm

What is the name for this kind of power cable? I know they are often used in three-phase setups, but not exclusively.

Title: quick quesion- what is the name for this type of cable/socket?
Post by: DesW on December 27, 2008, 04:44:52 pm

Quote from: tmx3

What is the name for this kind of power cable? I know they are often used in three-phase setups, but not exclusively.

Hi,

In Aust it's called a RAYROLL .

DesW

Title: quick quesion- what is the name for this type of cable/socket?
Post by: jani on December 27, 2008, 08:43:50 pm

Quote from: tmx3

What is the name for this kind of power cable? I know they are often used in three-phase setups, but not exclusively.

Those look like they could be ordinary two-phase cables, but for 32A @240V.

Incidentally, I used my mobile phone to document some 25A extension cables with 32A connectors (http://jani.at.ifi.uio.no/tmp/32A.shtml) at work some time ago.

It is of course possible that they're designed for three-phase 400V, but they seem to lack a bit of the clunkyness I associate with those. Perhaps it's the blue colour that's fooling me; the three-phase 400V connectors I've seen are mostly red, to differentiate them clearly from two-phase 240V.

Title: quick quesion- what is the name for this type of cable/socket?
Post by: hazard on December 29, 2008, 04:14:04 am

It looks like IEC 60309 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60309) connectors.
The blue color means 200-250V.

/Andreas

Title: quick quesion- what is the name for this type of cable/socket?
Post by: tmx3 on December 30, 2008, 02:31:52 pm

Cool, thats enough material to get me started - Thank you all!