"NY" wrote in message
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"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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On 25 Jan 2021 at 00:21:19 GMT, alan_m wrote:
It may be that Yank homes with their cheeseparing 110V can get two phases
supplied to their house quite easily and his arrangement may somehow
disconnect the phase he's feeding into. What is worse though is that he's
shoving 5A or so through that ****ty two-pin socket. With their
notoriously
flimsy plugs/sockets, there will be some heating effect there that he may
need
to keep under obbo.

I thought their "****ty two-pin sockets" were rated at more than 5 A. I
know that high-power devices like tumble-driers and washing machines (on
presumably electric fires) tend to be hard-wired in 220 V (like our
cookers are) but portable devices like hair drivers and vacuum cleaners
can be powered from a 2-pin power socket, so those sockets must be rated
for more than 550 W (110 V, 5A).

Ah, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector says that 2-pin NEMA (US)
mains plugs are rated at 15 A.

Do modern US electrical standards mandate shrouded mains plug pins on new
appliances, to prevent a child getting their fingers onto the pins while
the plug is half .in the socket and the pins are still connected?

Nope.

Or has that European rule not made it over to the US yet because the
voltage is lower?

They couldnt care less what Europe does.