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Jim Michaels wrote:
Are you trying to say that all sockets on radials are capable of
carrying the full rating of that radial as a continuous load? Because
this doesn't seem to be the case in most counties.

It certainly is in the US.


Any single socket on a circuit is capable of the full capacity of the
circuit.

So you have one socket outlet per radial circuit?

Sometimes, not usually.

Err, please explain this. If you have a 10 amp socket (for example) the
radial must be protected by a 10 amp MCB, etc. If you have more than one
10 amp socket, then either the radial will trip if you try to load both to
10 amps, or a 20 amp MCB and wiring would allow a 10 amp socket to be
overloaded by your resident idiot.

How incredibly wasteful of cable etc
and this also means the vast majority of households won't
have adequate numbers of sockets and rely on unsafe extension leads for
what are in effect permanent installations.

As a minimum a socket is required to be within 6 feet horizontally of
everyplace along a wall in residential rooms. Above the kitchen work
tops in is 2 feet.

So just how many ways does the average US CU or whatever contain?


Anyone want to buy non-fused BS1363 style plugs?

They've got nothing to do with BS1363, and have no type approval
anywhere.

They seem to fit into BS1363 sockets and effectively bypass a linchpin
of the BS1363 system.

You can probably find cheap copy brake pads for your car where the pad
material is totally unsuitable, but will fit. Would you think this a
good idea for your car, and therefore the safety of your family? And it
doesn't take many seconds to think of similar things where unscrupulous
makers sell totally unsafe products.

This thread was about idiot proof designs.

You just can't make things idiot proof where unscrupulous manufacturers
are allowed to sell products which contravene standards. And fools buy
them.

Trading Standards in the UK would come down very hard on anyone selling
such things - and rightly so.

I was merely pointing out how resourceful some idiots appear to be.

You seem to be pointing out the beauty of a so called 'free market'
economy where anyone can sell anything.

Drugs which claim to cure cancer? Drugs which say on the box are 'X' and
look like it but are chalk? Is this what you want?

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