12v plug question continental (1 Viewer)

[Northernraider]

My van has the continental style 12v plugs the ones you push in and twist.... I need to order a couple of male plugs but can't fir the life of me remember their name

Anyone able to tell me

Tia

 

[Gellyneck]

My van has the continental style 12v plugs the ones you push in and twist.... I need to order a couple of male plugs but can't fir the life of me remember their name

Anyone able to tell me

Tia

Are they Hella plugs?

 

[The Nomad]

Might be worth just changing those sockets for "normal" 12volt spckets instead? Dead easy job to do, and thereafter all normal 12 volt plugs will fit in them.

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[jockaneezer]

They're Hella plugs and make a better electrical contact than the "standard" cigar lighter ones. There was a thread on here the other day about the standard ones overheating. We have the Hella ones in our Burstner and I bought replacement plugs from The Range for a couple of our 12 volt things but also bought a Hella to Cigar adaptor off ebay.

 

[namwaldog]

Like Graeme above we bought an adaptor off Ebay....



They come in single, double & treble.

 

[pappajohn]

Like Graeme above we bought an adaptor off Ebay....



They come in single, double & treble.
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Those sockets are just a copper (if your lucky) or coloured aluminium tube and rely on fraction between that and the plug side prongs to hold the plug in.....unreliable, and possibly a fire risk in my view.

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[Northernraider]

Thanks peeps I just couldn't remember the name of them... I prefer them to the UK ones definitely connect better and having just melted a UK socket on my tyre inflater they are definitely better made

Off to eBay

 

[PeteH]

Most UK low current "stuff" come with the UK style ones fitted. Just avoid running high currents off them. I-Pads, phones etc; are OK. But anything "power hungry" is best run NOT using them. Having said that my Laptop Charger has the UK style one and is in it`s 5th+ year of use?.