How do I prevent anyone turning off the wall double socket

[riveralt]

The obvious choice is to box them with some form lockable enclosure.
Something similar to but not this :
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_In...ed/index.html#Weatherproof_Moulded_Boxes_IP56
Can't help but wonder though if there will be some law somewhere that will prevent you from doing that.

 

[masona]

Can't help but wonder though if there will be some law somewhere that will prevent you from doing that.

This is what I'm worry about, I'm guessing being in a bowls club, everything must be accessible

 

[masona]

Change the socket for one without switches!

Did think of that but then they might pull the plug out!

Just a bit of tape across them (maybe with a suitable message written on it), although it wouldn't 'stop' them pulling the plug out, would surely give most of them the message that they shouldn't be pulling it out?

Well I have but you can't see it on the photo, there's a strong sellotape over the switch, rightly or wrongly, they still switched off

 

[ericmark]

It does not need to be a bowls club I tell my mother again and again the TV will not record if you switch it off but then some health worker will tell her to switch everything off before going to bed and she will.
TV.
Phone. (Cordless and Mobile)
Emergency button to call centre.
Oven.
Wheel chair battery charger.
It is the way they have been brought up and there is nothing one can do about it.

 

[JohnW2]

Either that or the older generation cannot accept the new technology.

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• masona
• 24 Sep 2013
• 1

Specsavers or they're too thick

... or can't read English?

Do you think there is just one, or a small number of, cuplrits, such that once they 'learned their lesson' the problem would go away? If so, thinking laterally, maybe what you need is a very loud "power failure alarm" connected to your computer - they surely would get embarrassed if they repeatedly deafened all your members with such a din?!

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Superglue on the rockers?

 

[sparkwright]

Some very good replies above highlighting the obsessive nature of (particularly older) human beings.

The problem here obviously being the switches can be turned off AND/OR the plugs can be removed.

Assuming the appliances are all 230 v, and do not require a transformer built into the plug (sometimes known as wall warts), there will be ways to sort out the problem.

Many modern outdoor sockets have a lid on them which can be shut completely while the plugs are still inserted, and often there is a facility to fit a padlock. This may be helpful, with or without the lock.

Ultimately, a good old fashioned boll*cking to anyone who happens to be in the same building often does the trick, so this could be best and simplest solution.

 

[JohnW2]

It does not need to be a bowls club I tell my mother again and again the TV will not record if you switch it off but then some health worker will tell her to switch everything off before going to bed and she will. ... It is the way they have been brought up and there is nothing one can do about it.

My grandmother, who didn't die until 1990, and therfore probably 'lived with electricity' for at least 50 years, never would turn anything electrical on or off! She was, however, in her earlier years, seeming quite comfortable with terrifying irons and 'curling tongs' heated up by the flames of the gas stove!

Kind Regards, John

 

[masona]

Do you have a newsletter? Could you put a piece in it explaining the importance of not turning the equipment off?

Would the club secretary support a bit of deviousness? I'm thinking if there is a newsletter that you could put a bit in about having to pay for a consultant to fix problems caused by switching it off.

Good idea, there is AGM meeting next week so will mention it then. I suppose the other option is to have the socket higher up the wall out of reach, is this allow?

 

[JohnW2]

Good idea, there is AGM meeting next week so will mention it then.

Given the obvious clarity of the instructions not to switch it off, which some people seem to be choosing to ignore, it would not seem unreasonable to discuss at your AGM the possibility that people could be warned in your newsletter that, if caught doing it, they would be thrown out of the club, or at least ''suspended' for a while?

Kind Regards, John

 

[Taylortwocities]

Good grief!

There is already one of those double socket adapter things in the other half of the socket.

The easiest, and most simple remedy would be to add another double socket there. That would eliminate the doubler thingy AND provide a spare socket outlet that the miscreant can use to recharge his/her mobility scooter....

 

[JohnW2]

The easiest, and most simple remedy would be to add another double socket there. That would eliminate the doubler thingy AND provide a spare socket outlet that the miscreant can use to recharge his/her mobility scooter....

Maybe I'm wrong in my interpretation, but I didn't take it that the miscreant(s) were unplugging the computer so that they could use the socket for something else but, rather, that they were simply switching it off, for whatever (altrusitic, ecological, safety, bloody-minded, or whatever!) reason, with the plug still plugged in.

Kind Regards, John

 

[masona]

Good grief!

There is already one of those double socket adapter things in the other half of the socket.

The easiest, and most simple remedy would be to add another double socket there. That would eliminate the doubler thingy AND provide a spare socket outlet that the miscreant can use to recharge his/her mobility scooter....

I see if I can get the club for the electrician to sort out, is there any regs regarding a socket out of reach higher up the wall?

 

[viewer]

Sparkwright's external socket with cover sounds easy and cheap. No doubt it is the "older" people who automatically unplug things. "Turn everything off" was the watchword until fairly recently as televisions did catch fire during the night, and, to be honest, whatever the instruction book says I still turn off such appliances including the PC and monitor when retiring. I wonder if the type of plug sometimes used on freezers to show power failure might be useful?

 

[xr4x4]

Why can't you just wire it into a unswitched fused connection unit?