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Safety Instructions

Roger B


I recently purchased a few rewireable Europlugs from a German supplier:

https://www.conrad.ch/de/p/bachmann-900-003-schutzkontaktstecker-kunststoff-weiss-1838753.html


I found the safety instructions they came with quite interesting:

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A little over the top for fitting a plug but I guess they are fairly generic and driven by liability laws. I have put the German in as well for Mike (and others?).


Best regards


Roger
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    Those German five rules

    seem to relate to working on things at  HV, at least  in terms of locking off to ground and so on..


    For our HV lab her some folk like the abbreviation SIDE  which is similar but does  not recommend hard earthing until discharged.


    Switch off  (i.e. remove the power supply)

    Isolate       (i.e. make it hard to re-energize)

    Discharge (remove stored energy, but slowly via resistance)

    Earth        (with a near zero impedance)



    I'm not a great believer in trippy mnemonics personally , as it tends to stop people actually thinking about what they are doing, and at least in a lab context like ours there are so many experiment specific variations that a single method fails to cover it.


    This is about a 2 pin plug for 0.75mmsq flat flex or less.

     maker's data for that plug is more sense.


    And Conrad charge ~ £2.50 for one.  (2.85 swiss francs)


    The UK plug is cheaper, as well as having 3 pins and a better cord grip.


    Not cheaper from Conrad mind you... UK plug from Conrad, 4.55 swiss francs.



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    Those German five rules

    seem to relate to working on things at  HV, at least  in terms of locking off to ground and so on..


    For our HV lab her some folk like the abbreviation SIDE  which is similar but does  not recommend hard earthing until discharged.


    Switch off  (i.e. remove the power supply)

    Isolate       (i.e. make it hard to re-energize)

    Discharge (remove stored energy, but slowly via resistance)

    Earth        (with a near zero impedance)



    I'm not a great believer in trippy mnemonics personally , as it tends to stop people actually thinking about what they are doing, and at least in a lab context like ours there are so many experiment specific variations that a single method fails to cover it.


    This is about a 2 pin plug for 0.75mmsq flat flex or less.

     maker's data for that plug is more sense.


    And Conrad charge ~ £2.50 for one.  (2.85 swiss francs)


    The UK plug is cheaper, as well as having 3 pins and a better cord grip.


    Not cheaper from Conrad mind you... UK plug from Conrad, 4.55 swiss francs.



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