16amp blue socket wired off a socket spur

[JohnW2]

And extra interesting here.
https://www2.theiet.org/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=205&threadid=104538&highlight_key=y
This makes the forum searching even more fun!

Fair enough - that makes at least four 'personas', then

Kind Regards, John

 

[bernardgreen]

Well that is rubbish isn't it? The fuse in an FCU or plug is to protect the cable not the appliance on the end of it which should be protected internally by the manufacturer.

And what happens if the end user is on the continent, in Australia, or one of the many countries where FCUs are not available and probably not compliant.

I'm afraid you are out of date. There is no longer a requirement to follow the manufacturers instructions in the latest regs.

Just as well when so manufacturers seem to have no idea.

It can only be........?

 

[BS3036]

Well yes. Someone pointed out this persona to him about a year ago, but he denied that one too. He denies being any of them but also denies ever lying. It is a strange condition.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Something to do in lockdown, I suppose

 

[JohnW2]

Something to do in lockdown, I suppose

An interesting suggestion, but I think the behaviour we're discussing predated the emergence of the virus by a good few years!

Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnW2]

Well yes. Someone pointed out this persona to him about a year ago, but he denied that one too. He denies being any of them but also denies ever lying. It is a strange condition.

To quote what someone once said when she was alive and a 'young lady' ... "Well, he would, wouldn't he?"

Kind Regards, John

 

[SUNRAY]

I can confirm BT had many hundreds, maybe thousands of 13A sockets restricted to 3A or 5A [it is just possible I may have some with their sticky lables] but this was for a completely different reason. The exchanges originally had 5A cast iron sockets mounted on the older equipment racks but newer installations had 13A sockets, in order to avoid incompatibility they went through a program of changing the 5A sockets to 13A but they left the original 3/0.029 wiring and 5A fuse. The earlier lables showed 5A restriction but it creased a problem with 2 or more 'high power' devices in use so the later lables showed 3A restriction. That was nothing to do with socket or plug current carrying capabilities, just the wiring and as we are so often quoted 'the fuse is only to protect the cable'.

Having a sort out I came across this:

Which I commented before had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with restricting use of sockets, this was entirely down to 3/0.029" wiring and 5A fuse.