Aidan Karley wrote:

In article , Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I was considering fitting one permanently to
the old Rover, and having a mains inlet point somewhere on the outside of
the car. The question is what would be a suitable weatherproof connector
for this as the car lives outside? About IEC size would be ideal.

For maintaining the charge on the various equipment in our lifeboats
at work, we feed them through one of the 120V outdoor trailing-socket type
connectors which have the additional benefit that they'll uncouple as you
lower the lifeboat without the coxswain having to remember (assuming that
the cox was still alive to make it to the lifeboat). You do need to break
or disable the cover on the plug end which mates with the trailing socket
to latch the two together. But you'll do that the first time you drive off
without remembering to disconnect the power unit.
You can get comparable trailing (and panel, come to think of it)
plugs and sockets for 240V. They're blue, not yellow. The two different
voltages won't mate without hammer, chisel and lobotomy.
Can't find pictures on B&Q or Maplin's websites. Can't be bothered
looking further. They're easy to find.

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Aidan
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:16 GMT, but posted later.

Don't buy anything from Maplins. My broadband started to go slow and my
ISP said I needed a new filter. Maplins said I needed new cable. I
bought new cable but the broadband speeded up again - must have been
BT. So I took the cable back. But because it had been machine packed
there is no way I would return it "in the same condition". The cable
WAS "in the same condition". But the idiots said the packing had to be
the same -- impossible!

If they want to get things back "correctly" they should use packing it
is possible to pack.

Every other company I've taken anything back to, in living memory has
accepted it back with full refund.

Except Maplins.

Don't even think of shopping with them.