Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

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Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some useful
info

On Sun, 31 May 2015 17:56:05 +0000 (UTC)
Maurice wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?


One of these?

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detai...992279623.html

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Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Bob Minchin
wrote:

Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel
in Provence.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg
Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some
useful info

Possibly the earth pin is in the wrong hole?

FSVO "wrong"? I'd wondered idly if it was the French equivalent of a
Walsall plug/socket for use for special circuits (IT? medical?). But I
have bugger all evidence - it was pure speculation.
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On 31 May 2015, Bob Minchin
grunted:

Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some useful
info

Yeah! See:

https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/88401708_1280x720.jpg

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On 31/05/2015 19:52, Bob Minchin wrote:
Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some useful
info

I had to smile:

http://tinyurl.com/nm4kuwr

(those look like they need a different type of plug!)


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Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?


To stop you plugging your own appliances in.

Tim

On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 07:16:34 +0100, Tim+
wrote:

Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?


To stop you plugging your own appliances in.

So is it called a Le Blanc-Mesnil or a Mulhouse socket?

G.Harman

Room service or alarm maybe?
Brian

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"Robin" wrote in message
...
Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Bob Minchin
wrote:

Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel
in Provence.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg
Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some
useful info

Possibly the earth pin is in the wrong hole?

FSVO "wrong"? I'd wondered idly if it was the French equivalent of a
Walsall plug/socket for use for special circuits (IT? medical?). But I
have bugger all evidence - it was pure speculation.
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In message
-septemb
er.org, Tim+ writes
Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?


To stop you plugging your own appliances in.

The French used to have a large, multi-pin phone socket - but this isn't
it.

Whatever it's for, judging by the scuff marks it seems to have had a lot
of use.
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Ian

In message , Davey
writes
On Sun, 31 May 2015 17:56:05 +0000 (UTC)
Maurice wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?


One of these?

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detai...ceed-40000-tim
es_1992279623.html

Those 'earth contacts' just look like the heads of fixing screws.
--
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On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 10:59:59 +0100
Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Davey
writes
On Sun, 31 May 2015 17:56:05 +0000 (UTC)
Maurice wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel
in Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?


One of these?

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detai...ceed-40000-tim
es_1992279623.html

Those 'earth contacts' just look like the heads of fixing screws.

I agree.

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On Sun, 31 May 2015 19:52:56 +0100, Bob Minchin
wrote:

Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some useful
info

I searched for '3-pole socket france' in Google image search. Here is
the answer:
http://internationalconfig.com/icc6.asp?item=71114
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On 01/06/15 12:08, Dave W wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2015 19:52:56 +0100, Bob Minchin
wrote:

Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some useful
info

I searched for '3-pole socket france' in Google image search. Here is
the answer:
http://internationalconfig.com/icc6.asp?item=71114

Except it isn't the answer.

Because it clearly isn't the same...

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On 31/05/2015 18:56, Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

Is it for testing Photoshop?

Cheers
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Maurice wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

I couldn't see it on any of the four pages of French plugs here, click
the related galleries for more

http://www.fam-oud.nl/~plugsocket/French1.html

On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 1:23:48 PM UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:
Maurice wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

I couldn't see it on any of the four pages of French plugs here, click
the related galleries for more

http://www.fam-oud.nl/~plugsocket/French1.html

If the white portion is rotated 90 degrees anti clockwise the earth pin would then be in the correct position. Has the socket been incorrectly installed.

Some dimensions would be convenient and the location also. (i.e.) was it in the kitche or bathroon etc.

On Sun, 31 May 2015 17:56:05 +0000 (UTC), Maurice
wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

Just a thought, that pin doesn't look that good a fit in the hole
Could the socket be 3 pin variety and the actual earth hole is the one
to the right of the photo and the pin is from a plug that in the
unfamiliar environment of a Hotel somebody has forced a different type
of plugtop/wallwart in and the pin has broken off.
The containment looks a bit of an unusual surround for a socket and
appears to have a sort of tide mark so a couple of other ideas is
that a small lamp was located there and has gone missing leaving just
its base which is part of a proprietary design,if the Hotel is
recently built it may have been a quick change LED unit or a
proprietary electric air freshener.

G.Harman

On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:59:14 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 01/06/15 12:08, Dave W wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2015 19:52:56 +0100, Bob Minchin
wrote:

Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some useful
info

I searched for '3-pole socket france' in Google image search. Here is
the answer:
http://internationalconfig.com/icc6.asp?item=71114

Except it isn't the answer.

Because it clearly isn't the same...

Sorry - red face.
--
Dave W

On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 07:16:34 +0100, Tim+ wrote:

To stop you plugging your own appliances in.

Well, it certainly did - but there were other, normal, sockets.

Just a thought: The room's sockets are controlled by the
presence/absence of a room entry card in a slot, i.e. the circuits are
off when the card is missing.
Perhaps this odd socket is always live, for use (with a matching
plug) in an emergency?

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On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:07:57 -0700, fred wrote:

was it in the kitche or bathroon etc.

It was near a corner of a lounge wall, to the left of the dressing
table.

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On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:12:13 +0100, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article , Dave W
wrote:

On Sun, 31 May 2015 19:52:56 +0100, Bob Minchin
wrote:

Maurice wrote:
Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?

No but you can do a google image search which might throw up some useful
info

I searched for '3-pole socket france' in Google image search. Here is
the answer:
http://internationalconfig.com/icc6.asp?item=71114

Obviously not one of these, is it. Unless the earth pin is in the wrong
hole, as I said.

Sorry - red face. However, in the Wikipedia description of French CEE
sockets, " the socket may not necessarily be installed with the earth
pin at the top".
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On Sun, 31 May 2015 17:56:05 +0000 (UTC)
Maurice wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

Anyone know what it's for?


If you have the hotel receipt, you could send them a message asking the
same question, as nobody here seems to know!

--
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Dave W wrote:
However, in the Wikipedia description of French CEE
sockets, " the socket may not necessarily be installed with the earth
pin at the top".

I think that means the whole socket may be rotated rather than the pin
swapped with one of the holes. See eg
http://www.aliexpress.com/item-img/F...269451578.html



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On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 07:16:34 +0100, Tim+ wrote:

To stop you plugging your own appliances in.

Like the UK ones shown he

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk4ORXrz_l8

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In article ,
says...

On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 07:16:34 +0100, Tim+ wrote:

To stop you plugging your own appliances in.

Well, it certainly did - but there were other, normal, sockets.

Just a thought: The room's sockets are controlled by the
presence/absence of a room entry card in a slot, i.e. the circuits are
off when the card is missing.
Perhaps this odd socket is always live, for use (with a matching
plug) in an emergency?

It's where the cleaning staff plug in their vacuum cleaner.

Special socket (always live), only use able by the vacuum cleaner which
has a matching plug.

It also stops the staff from nicking the cleaner (unless they're
prepared to re-wire it & people seem not to know how to do that
nowadays).

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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
Maurice wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

I couldn't see it on any of the four pages of French plugs here, click the
related galleries for more

http://www.fam-oud.nl/~plugsocket/French1.html

Looks like 2 and 5 to me with the extra hole actually being
how its fastened to the wall, not part of the electrical system.

"fred" wrote in message
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On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 1:23:48 PM UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:
Maurice wrote:

Came across this odd socket in a bedroom in a recently-built hotel in
Provence.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...nch-socket.jpg

I couldn't see it on any of the four pages of French plugs here, click
the related galleries for more

http://www.fam-oud.nl/~plugsocket/French1.html

If the white portion is rotated 90 degrees anti clockwise the earth pin
would then be in the correct position. Has the socket been incorrectly
installed.

Some dimensions would be convenient and the location also. (i.e.) was it
in the kitche or bathroon etc.

I'm not convinced that it is an earth pin. It looks a lot more like
it's a 2 pin socket without an earth and the extra thing that looks
like a pin it actually just how its attached to the wall, nothing to
do with the electrical system at all.