[ARC5] Need HP Style Power Cord

[Richard Knoppow]

    -hp- used small oval plugs on the equipment side. There are two 
forms of this cord, on the -hp- cords the center pin is ground but there 
are others that use one of the side pins. These cords were used up to 
the late 1970s when the newer female plug was adopted.  The old cords 
with oval connectors are hard to come by. The "wrong" female can be used 
by cutting off the line cord and replacing it with the wires moved to 
correct the other end.
     My best advice is to search ebay, the cords do show up on occasion.

On 3/16/2016 5:41 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
> I'm  a bit flabbergasted by that question.  Every piece of HP gear I 
> have that uses a separate power cord, including my HP 8654A and HP3200 
> oscillators and HP6200 power supply, does use a three prong plug in 
> power supply cord with the ground connection offset from the other two.
> And those are the exact same cords used on every desktop PC-style 
> computer I have seen for the last 30 years.  I have a pile of those 
> cords off old and new equipment and literally have found them tossed 
> aside along the road.
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
>
>
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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL

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