Euroblock connectors in UK?

[LX3]

Hi folks

Anyone know where to get "Euroblock" connectors in the UK? For an installation electronics "standard", they're pretty elusive.

Paul

[LX3]

In case anyone else gets stuck for these, I can at last answer my own question, now that RS have their website back online:

It's the 220-4721 at RS, a 12-way screw-terminal plug, 3.81mm pitch.

Made by Phoenix Connect, which explains why they're also often called "Phoenix connectors". About £6 a throw.

P

[Remoteness]

There you go!

[LX3]

Originally Posted by Remoteness

There you go!

Yeah, I know, I'd been hunting for days on and off, and had given up when I posted. Everyone seems to call it "Euroblock", but if you Google for "Euroblock connector" you get nothing except bits of gear that say they use Euroblock connectors! None of the actual connectors themselves.

It was by searching another forum that I got the name "Phoenix", then realising that Phoenix was a UK [correction: not so - actually German] connector manufacturer, then the new RS website coming back online, combined with actually measuring the pitch of the connectors on the gear. That finally narrowed it down.

For something that's supposedly an industry standard, you wouldn't think it'd be that difficult.

And after all that... it turns out it makes more sense to use D-sub!!!

[ray_subsonic]

Yep. Phoenix are the 5mm version "apparently" ..

I'm in the world of sourcing Euroblock connectors (smaller 3mm versions) myself at the moment ... They seem strangely expensive for what they actually are ..

[LX3]

Let me know what you need, because I rather over-ordered and have hundreds of the things lying in a box here.

Might not be the right ones for you but you never know. I think I have three-way and 12-way versions.

[ray_subsonic]

Thanks for the Offer LX. That could be quite handy.

I'll PM you ..