On 11/02/18 19:07, Tim Watts wrote:

Yeah - don't bother, replace with a decent socket, and buy a slimline
plugtop USB charger.

Apart from what you found, the USB charging standards improve every
couple of years and any charging socket will be obsolete in terms of
providing the max charging current soon enough.

Many of these fad'ish sockets are being changed over by folks of little
experience of electrical wiring. Kids doing it just for their iPhones...

How many disconnected earth rings, or general dodgy joints have now
entered the UK housing stock, never mind the choice selection of the
cheapest chinese shock hazard type from eBay and the like?

https://www.electricalsafetyfirst.or...-from-so32.pdf

Big Clive and others have covered these on YouTube.

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Adrian C