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upside down????
On 10/06/2019 19:02, wrote:
On Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:25:24 UTC+1, Steve Walker wrote:
On 09/06/2019 09:42, dennis@home wrote:
On 08/06/2019 23:29, tabbypurr wrote:
On Saturday, 8 June 2019 15:20:05 UTC+1, Steve WalkerÂ* wrote:
On 08/06/2019 12:46, dennis@home wrote:
You could also plug a "continental" two pin in directly without the
need for a shaving adapter.
Risky though as the pin sizes are wrong.
The same is true of plugging them into shaver adapters the pins are too
small.
You might get away with it or you might overheat the thing and cause a
fire later when someone plugs an electric fire in.
Indeed.
I have done it with a shaver needing a charge when there has been no
shaver socket or adapter. In that case it is unlikely to cause any harm
due to the very low charging current. More worrying is that in a fault
case the very thin flex and the shaver itself is only protected by the
32A MCB or even 30A fuse for the ring.
SteveW
Pin size is fine, those plugs are on low current loads. Lack of fusing
is more an issue.
NT
The pin size is not fine.
No it is not. However, with the low current drawn by a charging shaver
or toothbrush, overheating due to poor contact is not going to happen,
so it wouldn't matter. Higher loads would.
... which makes the pin size absolutely fine for such loads. Sheesh.
But it doesn't.
Even with small loads any vibration can make it arc and that damages the
contacts in the socket and then it becomes a fire risk when someone
plugs in a real plug with a load on it.
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