No, they're used up to 16A. They are designed to be used with a socket-outlet having tube-type receptacles for the pins, giving a much greater contact area.
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Despite the fact that you have to put something into the earth socket to open the flaps for the live and neutral pins....
Bad practice and dangerous in the wrong hands. If a customer sees you doing that then they will think its ok to do it as well. The euro plug pins also have to bend outwards a little to fit the gap between the British live and neutral sockets and this can crack the euro plug and cause damage to the internals.
Bad practice and dangerous in the wrong hands. If a customer sees you doing that then they will think its ok to do it as well. The euro plug pins also have to bend outwards a little to fit the gap between the British live and neutral sockets and this can crack the euro plug and cause damage to the internals.
Either way it is a fail, as it there is no British Standard complied with.
BS1363 is very strict. forcing an europlug into the socket may leave the live terminal open in a way that something could be shoved down the side (not always), similar to cheapy, nasty and non-compliant socket covers designed to protect little ones.
BS1363 is very strict. forcing an europlug into the socket may leave the live terminal open in a way that something could be shoved down the side (not always), similar to cheapy, nasty and non-compliant socket covers designed to protect little ones.
A Europlug is rated at 2.5A, not 16A!
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The 2-pin one is rated at 2.5 amps and the round one that is either 2 pin or 2 pin and earth contact is rated for 16 amps. Myself I quite like them especially for the high current draw appliances a 16 amp domestic plug would be ideal.
As I said, the Europlug (or CEE 7/16 plug, as was shown in Lectrician's photo) is rated at 2.5A, the Europlug pins have a diameter of 4mm.
The European 16A plug pins have a diameter of 4.8mm and are most definetely not called a Europlug. There are several differing forms used in different countries, the most common is the German Schuko.
BS 1363 was recently updated to require that the type of socket where the shutters are operated by simultaneous insertion of the Line and Neutral pins can not be operated by a Europlug. The Schuko pins can only be inserted into a BS 1363 socket by using excess force, and will cause permanent damage to the socket.
Ive got adaptors made by power connections on my Europlugs now they work a treat and have a BS1362 fuselink in them.
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:36 am
The 2-pin one is rated at 2.5 amps and the round one that is either 2 pin or 2 pin and earth contact is rated for 16 amps. Myself I quite like them especially for the high current draw appliances a 16 amp domestic plug would be ideal.
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Certainly on the Costa Blanca in Spain one can buy two types of 2-pin plug, 2.5A and 16A. The latter has slightly thicker pins, and the body is larger, but still shaped like the 2.5A so it will not fit into the 2-pin adapters, only directly into the Schuko sockets. Nowhere have I seen a round 2-pin without peripheral earth, (except moulded plugs on some Class II equipment), but that is not to imply they do not exist.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:36 am
The 2-pin one is rated at 2.5 amps and the round one that is either 2 pin or 2 pin and earth contact is rated for 16 amps. Myself I quite like them especially for the high current draw appliances a 16 amp domestic plug would be ideal.
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Certainly on the Costa Blanca in Spain one can buy two types of 2-pin plug, 2.5A and 16A. The latter has slightly thicker pins, and the body is larger, but still shaped like the 2.5A so it will not fit into the 2-pin adapters, only directly into the Schuko sockets. Nowhere have I seen a round 2-pin without peripheral earth, (except moulded plugs on some Class II equipment), but that is not to imply they do not exist.
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