It can easilly happen on a site like Amazon that one doesn't realise where the supplier is until after clicking the buy button.
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German cooker hood use in UK
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It can easilly happen on a site like Amazon that one doesn't realise where the supplier is until after clicking the buy button.
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Ideally you would check the product worked first.
and then you could cut the plug off.
and then you could cut the plug off.
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What sort of UK plug?
A BS1363 13A plug clearly has three male connectors (aka 'pins').
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Exactly, and the schuko clearly has two.
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It does, so why would "saying a UK plug has two pins be the same" ?
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You said JohnD was being pedantic in stating that the schuko has two pins, when Bernard said it was a three pin plug,, so I could say the UK plug only has two pins and you would be pedantic in saying it has three.
Fair enough.
I suppose my view of "X-pin" is that it relates to a plug/socket pair, regardless of whether or not all the male connectors are attached to the same component.
However, it seems that the word 'pin' is actually used even more loosely - what, I wonder, do you think about ....
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They do, and it's isn't.
Others call it a "plug socket", which I find a lot more reasonable, since it distinguishes a socket designed to mate with a plug from the socket used to tighten/loosen nuts/bolts etc, a socket used to connect two lengths of soil pipe, the socket of an artificial limb etc. etc.
Having said that, there is some inconsistency, even perhaps confusion, within the plug+socket pair as to which is correctly termed which. Some regard the component with male connectors as always being the plug (whether it is 'fixed' or 'trailing') and others regard the trailing component as always being the plug (whether it has male or female connectors).
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The more types one considers the harder it becomes to have a rule which defines which is the plug and which is the socket, and which connector is male and which is female (consider the mains-rated XLR plugs and sockets). And both of those problems arise before you consider things like the CEE 7/5 & 7/6, where each item has both male and female parts.
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