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IEC connector under a bath.

Sparkingchip
I presume an IP rated 10/250  IE C320-1 trailing socket plugged into a panel socket on a control panel under a bath in a domestic bathroom is acceptable, because it is classed as a connector rather than a plug and socket?


I am pretty confident that is acceptable, it’s the other end of the flex I am concerned about, but just want to double check this end is okay.


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    Sparkingchip:
    Chris Pearson:

    The BBC report suggests that in that tragic incident, the discarded equipment was more than that - "plug and cable with bare wires".




    I read the determination last night, the guys were pulled up on the connection behind the oven not being to standard as well as cutting off and leaving the plug in the house.


    I want everything absolutely clear in my head before contacting the supplier.




    According to the Inquiry, the workmen involved did not cut off the plug. They removed the whole cable with bare conductors at the end. That made it possible to hold L in one hand and N or E in the other. The amputated plug shown above may present a risk of shock, but I suggest a very much lower one.


    "The new cable and plug was a three core flexible white coloured cable with internal conductors for live, neutral and earth connections terminated at one end in a three pin plug. At the other end of the cable the sheathing and basic insulation were stripped back and the stranded copper conductors in each core were exposed over a length of approximately one centimetre." [20]

    Link to inquiry.


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    Sparkingchip:
    Chris Pearson:

    The BBC report suggests that in that tragic incident, the discarded equipment was more than that - "plug and cable with bare wires".




    I read the determination last night, the guys were pulled up on the connection behind the oven not being to standard as well as cutting off and leaving the plug in the house.


    I want everything absolutely clear in my head before contacting the supplier.




    According to the Inquiry, the workmen involved did not cut off the plug. They removed the whole cable with bare conductors at the end. That made it possible to hold L in one hand and N or E in the other. The amputated plug shown above may present a risk of shock, but I suggest a very much lower one.


    "The new cable and plug was a three core flexible white coloured cable with internal conductors for live, neutral and earth connections terminated at one end in a three pin plug. At the other end of the cable the sheathing and basic insulation were stripped back and the stranded copper conductors in each core were exposed over a length of approximately one centimetre." [20]

    Link to inquiry.


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