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16 Amp Schuko plug.

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Did you know that you can plug a 2 pin European Schuko plug into a U.K. 13 Amp adapter so that an appliance can be used here in the U.K. A Turkish Gent supplied me with tea all day today from a Class 1 electric samovar which had a two pin Schuko plug rammed into a 13 Amp three way adapter. It still worked without the earth being connected.  Genius!

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    For the 2 pin euro-plug there is an even more unpleasant device that looks like one of those deprecated 'child safe' shutter devices with 2 holes for the L and N pins..

    Just about OK on an extension lead as the lead itself is fused, but in a 32A ring or a 40A plus cooker circuit not nice at all.

    Having said that the adaptor described  makes a class 1 device, into class 0, so still single fault to danger, and that is how much of the world works all the time, but not generally Europe or IEC land. If the supply is RCD protected then the risk of fatal shock during an earth fault is not that high, but of course a live chassis condition could persist tingling everyone until someone drew enough to operate it.

    Mike.

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    For the 2 pin euro-plug there is an even more unpleasant device that looks like one of those deprecated 'child safe' shutter devices with 2 holes for the L and N pins..

    Just about OK on an extension lead as the lead itself is fused, but in a 32A ring or a 40A plus cooker circuit not nice at all.

    Having said that the adaptor described  makes a class 1 device, into class 0, so still single fault to danger, and that is how much of the world works all the time, but not generally Europe or IEC land. If the supply is RCD protected then the risk of fatal shock during an earth fault is not that high, but of course a live chassis condition could persist tingling everyone until someone drew enough to operate it.

    Mike.

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