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BS 1363 13 A plug tops

Former Community Member over 3 years ago

I need to find the regulations which permit or prohibit the wiring of two mains voltage devices into a single 13 A plug top. I have a C & G 2377 PAT certificate and am looking to test some equipment for a local model Railway club.

I noticed that they have a couple of places where they have wired two 12 volt ‘car battery’ chargers into a single 13 A plug top. This just does not look right but I don't know where the ‘regulations’ state this.

Assuming it is not correct, what would be the easiest way to wire this correctly? Certainly in one place there is only a single outlet socket available currently.

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0 Roger B over 3 years ago

I came across the opposite problem on a lab safety audit. A hot air gun had been modified so that the blower was fed from one 13A plug and the heater was fed from another via a temperature controller. Maybe no problem but the sockets on the lab bench were fed in sequence from the 3 phases. It was possible items that were expected to be at the same potential were at 400V?
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0 Roger B over 3 years ago

I came across the opposite problem on a lab safety audit. A hot air gun had been modified so that the blower was fed from one 13A plug and the heater was fed from another via a temperature controller. Maybe no problem but the sockets on the lab bench were fed in sequence from the 3 phases. It was possible items that were expected to be at the same potential were at 400V?
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