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upside down????
On 12/06/2019 21:10, wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 June 2019 20:38:18 UTC+1, Steve Walker wrote:
On 12/06/2019 02:12, John Rumm wrote:
The problem is less what happens to your appliance with the wrong plug,
and more what happens to the next hapless person along with a high load
appliance and proper plug using a socket which now has (potentially)
damaged contacts.
The likelihood of damage using a shaver plug is pretty low. They are
narrower than the proper pins, so shouldn't splay the contacts; they
have rounded ends, so shouldn't catch on the contacts, even at an angle;
and the current is low, so a poor contact shouldn't cause damage by
heating. Even more so, it is usually something that is only done once or
twice before a proper load or adapter is obtained.
SteveW
they're more rounded than a 13A plug's pins 
To be fair, 13A plug pins don't need to be rounded. You can't put them
in at an angle and the tip is much thinner than the gap between the
contacts, so two flat, sloping faces work fine and are cheap and simple
to make.
SteveW
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