Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

'Hot' condition IEC are rated at 10 amps. IEC line sockets may be 6.

The operative word there being "may." The cold condition connectors
were originally rated at 6 amps, but this was upped to 10 A quite a long
time ago now (early 90s, IIRC). So only old cordsets[*] will be 6 A
rating (these have/had 0.75mm^2 flex, whereas 10 A ones have 1.0 mm^2).

[*] Thunderbird's spell chequer suggests that the word "corsets" should
be used here :~)

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Andy