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Wall warts seem to be taking over the world...
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 12:34:56 AM UTC+1, Graham. wrote:
On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:08:30 -0700 (PDT),
wrote: Dave Liquorice wrote: Longer can be a problem, quite a few have the outlet wire coming from the end adjacent to the earth pin not from the L & N pin end like a normal flex. I'm sure BS1363 requires the flex to exit on the opposite side to the earth pin. Bang goes your house insurance. JGH I don't think they come under the remit of BS1363, for one thing, where's the fuse? You hope the thing has appropriate protection but how can you tell what's inside a sealed one without an x-ray machine? -- Graham. %Profound_observation%
Angle grinder?
I can never work out which of the buggers is supposed to power what. I wanted to power up an old ADSL modem/router and I've got a boxful of adapters and I don't know which one is for the router.
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