In message ,
"dennis@home" wrote:


"Martin Angove" wrote in message
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Why didnt you just fit 2 mains leads, a plug on each, and replace the
single socket with a double? (lol)

Hey, don't laugh. I did that once. Temporarily, of course. I had
designed and built (with a colleague) an interactive exhibit which used
four or six hot air guns to heat the air for a hot air balloon. The
final install location was to be near a distribution board where we
could quite easily sit a 32A breaker and proper take-off, but for "proof
of concept" purposes we had to make do with a couple of standard 13A
sockets in the workshop...

Worked a treat in the workshop, but they made me redundant before I
could install it properly, and the people who did the installation
didn't really have time to get it right. I gather it still (two and a
half years later) isn't working. Getting a 10ft high balloon to fly on
demand and within the sort of attention span a typical 11 year-old has
is no easy task.

Hmmm!
Two 13A plugs and a relay or two and it wouldn't have been a bodge.


Two 13A plugs, and a whole cabinet full of DIN-rail mounted connectors,
contactors and a transformer. Transformer was for LV remote switching of
the contactors, one contactor per hot air gun, four installed, but
contactors for two more. Even I was impressed.

Hwyl!

M.

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