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Old 18th Jan 2019, 8:16 pm   #14
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Default Re: Electric connector

I remember those Keynectors were quite popular in lighting-shop displays back in the days before everything came with moulded-on plugs. It was a bit worrying to see one of these in the window with about ten lights running off it!

There was another version I remember that had a circular translucent cover which twisted through 90 degrees to remove; the cover had three curved ramp-segments that pressed down on the contacts to trap the bared ends of the lead, and a protrusion in the middle that closed the control-switch when the cover was correctly tightened down. There was a neon which glowed through the translucent cover to indicate the cover was properly in-place.
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