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I have a Seaward Apollo 500+ and wanted to know if I need 415v adapters. Seem to be quite a few versions; 4 pin 5 pin / 16 or 32 and plug or iec. Doing a factory soon so wanted to be prepared?
 
You can get ready made adaptors but they are expensive. Personally I would visit the site and see which type/s of connector you need and make some.
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Just get a selection of plugs (16/3, 32/3 etc) and go online to find a deal on plug to plug test leads. Chop one end off, terminate to plug pins. Measure the resistance (r) for each (in theory should be identical per test lead), label each plug for calc purposes.
 
which ones do you use. There appears to be 8 that you go buy or make. Seems a lot at £30 each. 4 or 5 pin, male female and 16a or 32a plug or iec ?
 
Largely depend on what you're testing - only you know the answer to that! 32A 4p delta and 5p star would be a good starting point. You could actually just make up one lead to test and a bunch of adaptors as you need them.
 
As chance would have it - found myself making one up earlier - cost me about £10 / 2 for the leads, plug laying around in the bits box, some heat shrink and half an hour with a cuppa over the kitchen table.

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littlespark said:
I’ll probably start an argument here, but shouldn’t the black sleeving be on the yellow and grey sleeving on the blue?
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Oops! I must have been half asleep - yes, is the answer. In this case the over-sleeve is correct and the wiring is true, so no actual issue (although I’ll change it on principal). With the leads I’d got being fundamentally ALL the wrong colours I started out using the black and blue ones the new way around without over sleeve but then changed my mind and the confusion must have happened at that point - just goes to show how easy it can be to make a simple error and none of us are beyond it!! I did it twice, too, as there’s also a 16/3 made the same way!!! Maybe I’ll try a stronger coffee this time……
 
For this application my preference would be to have all the leads the same colour so that only one colour code is present. Even with both the sleeve and plug colours in correct sequences it's possible to get distracted and switch from looking at the sleeves to looking at the plugs or vice versa, especially around the critical moment of deciding which one is neutral.
 
Lucien Nunes said:
For this application my preference would be to have all the leads the same colour so that only one colour code is present. Even with both the sleeve and plug colours in correct sequences it's possible to get distracted and switch from looking at the sleeves to looking at the plugs or vice versa, especially around the critical moment of deciding which one is neutral.
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Mine too, but when you can get a set of 5 x 1m long double ended banana plugs from China for £10 as opposed to singles for about three times that cost……
 

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