Where to buy French/Belgian mains sockets?

[tinnews]

Where can I buy reasonably priced French/Belgian mains sockets? I'm looking for surface mounting 4-way (i.e. 4 sockets in a row) but almost anything would be useful.

I can find reasonably priced Schuko sockets but not the proper French/Belgian ones with the protruding earth pin.

In Belgium the prices are totally OTT, like 20 euros for a single socket.

[geoff]

In message , [e-mail] writes

Have you tried somewhere like Makro?

I was in the one in Liege a couple of weeks ago (I had to buy a multimeter) prices didn't look to be that much out of place

[JTM]

a selection of 'backboxes' including a couple of doubles and a triple for mounting vertically or horizontally and

has the 2P+T sockets on offer at the moment - less than 3 euro I think.

Most of the brico's will have a choice of 'boite encastrament' (backs) and sockets, but I can't recall seeing anything larger than a triple. Note that some of the popular sockets such as legrand might be too big for multiple mounting.

John

[Jerry]

Do not MK still list them, they used to (assuming I'm thinking of the same sockets), will probably be a specail order via a (non shed) UK electrical trade outlet, no idea on price though as I've never had to buy any..

Logic Plus range.

K4150 WHI

1 GANG 16 AMP 250V SHUTTERED (NON UK)

K4152 WHI

2 GANG 16 AMP 250V SHUTTERED (NON UK)

Or in their Modular range;

K5831 WHI K5831 BLK GERMAN 2P+E

16 AMP 250V SHUTTERED EURO 2 MODULE (NON UK)

[tinnews]

has a selection of 'backboxes' including a couple of doubles

Not less than three Euros, 4.75 for single socket, still cheaper than I can find in Belgium though.

Thanks for the pointers, I'll maybe take a look in France on my way home on Monday.

[tinnews]

Ah, but 'German' are Schuko which are not the same as French/Belgian plugs and sockets.

[David Hansen]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:31:09 +0100 someone who may be [e-mail] wrote this:-

Farnell. They are not easy to track down on their web site, but

is what you seek. No idea if you consider the price reasonable. Two can be put in a plate on a UK double gang box.

They also do German ones

a "universal" one

and a US one

[JTM]

Don't know about Belgium, but standard for French sockets is: no accessible mounting screws when socket is in use, so these might fail an inspection

John

John

[Scott M]

And who says some of the UK rules & regs are badly thought out? I cannot begin to imagine any sort of situation where that makes a jot of sense.

[Jerry]

What about non/poorly earthed switch boxes were there might be a risk of the box becoming live, with no external (metal) screws showing then there is no chance of an electric shock hazard.