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I have àn Aqua Signal series 34 combined LED tri and anchor masthead light. It is a couple of years old. The design is poor as it allows water to enter the base unit. Inside the base unit there is a connector block that looks like a choc block but isn't, instead, one side takes 4 pins from the removeable light unit.

Next, apologies but, in android I am unable to post a photo, but the identical block can be found third photo down at www.vonwentzel.net/Prout/11.Mast/03.Wiring/
(If any clever person can post the third photo down, I would be very much obliged).

Mitchels at Brightlingsea have been very helpful in contacting Aqua Signal in Germany about this but they say they don't sell them as aspare or otherwise.

I have searched everywhere but have been unable to find one.

If anyone is able to point me in the right direction, I shall be very grateful.
 
Can't help with suppliers, but here's the third photo down:

Mast-NewTopLightBase.jpg


I have the same light, as it happens. But I couldn't see any point in the "removable top half" feature, so when I replaced the innards with Bebi LEDs I removed the connection block and soldered the incoming wires directly to the LEDs' supply pigtails. Highly unlikely that I kept the block, though.

Pete
 
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Thanks for the photo, Pete. That's the best view I could find, but no mention in the article where they got it from. Interestingly, they could be German (Vonwentzel), just like Aqua Signal, maybe someone from Germany will have some ideas. In refurbing my existing block, I replaced the steel screws with brass.
 
prv said:
Clive, I'm sure the man can work Google perfectly well for himself, but he doesn't want to buy the whole light unit, just the connector block inside it.

Pete
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Sometimes a google search carried out in the UK would not highlight suppliers in Australia or other parts of the world (and vice versa).

Clive
 
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prv said:
Clive, I'm sure the man can work Google perfectly well for himself, but he doesn't want to buy the whole light unit, just the connector block inside it.

Pete
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Pete

Surely that terminal block is not specific to the Aqua Signal series 34?
Surely it is an "off the shelf item" used throughout industry? Surely there would be several equally suitable alternatives? It is just an electrical component after all?
(But then I am certainly no expert on these matters).

I notice Jaycar (an Australian company) sells 3 wire porcelain terminal blocks which look very similar

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They sell Ceramic 4 way terminal blocks on eBay too. Maybe the experts on this forum could advise if they would do the job.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/4-WAY-41...838029?hash=item281595e98d:g:fagAAOSwgApXB2ko

Clive
 
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Thanks for your input and efforts so far gents. Clive, you have the wrong connector. It is not ceramic, it is made of plastic. It does not have choc block type metal insert connectors but rather a sort of half a chock block connector in one side to receive the wiring and on the other side and at 90 degrees vertically to them are 4 metal sleeves to receive the pins in the base of the lamp. It may aid the orientation of the tricolour lights.

Steve Clayton, I have searched the CPC Farnell catalogue but am unable to locate such a connector. If you are thinking of page 1579, then that is not the one. But, thanks for the tip, I think I will give them a ring and pick their brains.

Andy
 
Andy61 said:
... It does not have choc block type metal insert connectors but rather a sort of half a chock block connector in one side to receive the wiring and on the other side and at 90 degrees vertically to them are 4 metal sleeves to receive the pins in the base of the lamp...
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[The following assertion is wrong, I didn't have a clear view. Apologies]
Then it isn't one of these, which is a normal chocolate block:

Mast-NewTopLightBase.jpg

(Posted from Android device, see post #1)
 
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nigelmercier said:
Then it isn't one of these, which is a normal chocolate block:

It is not a normal chocolate block, as there are no screws in the row of holes closest to the camera. Instead there are unthreaded holes in the inserts, which accept the four pins of the light unit.

To the OP: If you have already replaced the four steel screws with brass, do you really need a new connector block? In mine, it was only the screws that could rust, the inserts where non-magnetic, probably plated brass.
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Thanks Steve and Nigel. The Camden Boss item is merely a ceramic choc block for high temp applications. I have spoken to Camden Boss tech guys this morning and they have looked at this thread. They don't make/supply such an item.

Nigel, if you look at the photo, the upper connectors, which the wiring goes into, are screw type and you can see the screw heads. The corresponding lower connecting points have no screws. The pins on the light unit slot into here at 90°. Look carefully at the two left hand slots and you can just see the edge of the sleeves to take the pins vertically.

Andy
 
Andy61 said:
I have àn Aqua Signal series 34 combined LED tri and anchor masthead light. It is a couple of years old. The design is poor as it allows water to enter the base unit. Inside the base unit there is a connector block that looks like a choc block but isn't, instead, one side takes 4 pins from the removeable light unit.

Next, apologies but, in android I am unable to post a photo, but the identical block can be found third photo down at www.vonwentzel.net/Prout/11.Mast/03.Wiring/
(If any clever person can post the third photo down, I would be very much obliged).

Mitchels at Brightlingsea have been very helpful in contacting Aqua Signal in Germany about this but they say they don't sell them as aspare or otherwise.

I have searched everywhere but have been unable to find one.

If anyone is able to point me in the right direction, I shall be very grateful.
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Is this what you are looking for

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This is the standard "QUIKFIT" connection for most of the Aqua signal plugable nav lights.

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nigelmercier said:
Then it isn't one of these, which is a normal chocolate block:

Mast-NewTopLightBase.jpg

(Posted from Android device, see post #1)
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Nigel I think that is correct but its not a normal chocblock as it only has screws one side on a pin from a plug fits vertically into the other side.

I have used similar with a plug in from the side but not the top.

It could be a normal chocblock with the screws removed from one side but that would be a bit of a bodge and I don't think Aqua signal would do that
 
Rogershaw said:
Is this what you are looking for



This is the standard "QUIKFIT" connection for most of the Aqua signal plugable nav lights.
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Spot on But the connector does not seem to be available separately. Only complete with the base section and the protective cap as #53545020
 
VicS said:
Spot on But the connector does not seem to be available separately. Only complete with the base section and the protective cap as #53545020
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Yes I was looking but could not find one separate.

It might be a standard chocbloc with the screws removed and the threads drilled out. Only close inspection will determine that.

I will have a look in my junk box as I know I used to have one.

Yep its a standard chocbloc with the screws removed on one side and the thread drilled out as I took the screw out from the one side and it went straight in the other side so no thread, The cable hole was all the way through as well

There is no name on my block but a logo that looks like a triangle inside a circle with a W in the center.
 
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