Baron wrote:
Andy Burns prodded the keyboard with:
wrote:
Yes, it does.
Rubbish!
It's perfectly normal to have a 3 pin plug on a 2 core flex to a
lamp ... unless the lamp has any metalwork, in which case it must
be
a 3 core flex to earth that.
+1
Unless it is (as is probably more common) of double insulated/ class
II (square within a square symbol) construction, in which case it will
have a 2-core sheathed flex (typically type H03VVH2-F) and no
provision for earthing.
(Ignoring the rare class 0 ones made before about 1975 that are still
in service, which cannot legally be sold and are probably lethally
decrepit by now anyway.)
Martin.