what plug is this?
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Mk I do believe still sell them and the plugs that go with them, they are 5A rated and are primerily used for table lamps etc
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That's because it's only for use with table/floor lamps not appliances up to 13 A like normal plugs.
Your sockets will probably be on the lighting circuit and so if you try to draw more than 5/6 A the circuit breaker will trip
SB
Your sockets will probably be on the lighting circuit and so if you try to draw more than 5/6 A the circuit breaker will trip
SB
Looks like a socket to me.
Still available for lighting circuits and to receive "plugs" for table lamps.
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do you have any light switches which don't appear to do anything?
Just MK? I think you will find all the manufacturers do them TBH
It comming back in fashion to have the table lamps switched at the door.
Mine are on a dimmer to dim all the table lamps together
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hmm, love that wall paper.. still it goes with the accessories!
SB (mimimalist)
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It might just be a photo from 20 years ago
It may be a plug to you but its a "socket to me"
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sparkybird wrote: "That's because it's only for use with table/floor lamps not appliances up to 13 A like normal plugs. Your sockets will probably be on the lighting circuit and so if you try to draw more than 5/6 A the circuit breaker will trip".
When I was a student in the late 60's all the rooms in the Halls of Residence (built in the early 60's) had 2 of these jobbies fitted (there were no other sockets in the rooms). One socket accommodated the supplied table lamp, the other was free (presumably for the lamp if room layout different). The cleaner's socket (13A) was in the communal hall outside the rooms.
Anyway, I had plugged into the spare, a Marshall 100W guitar amplifier stack (a valve jobby), a Danset (spelling?) record deck (for playing along to) both wired-up through a single plug (goodness knows how I got the cables in!). Cranked up deafening volume with the deck blasting away never caused a failure of the supply. Pre circuit breaker days I suppose. Ah, happy, care-free days
When I was a student in the late 60's all the rooms in the Halls of Residence (built in the early 60's) had 2 of these jobbies fitted (there were no other sockets in the rooms). One socket accommodated the supplied table lamp, the other was free (presumably for the lamp if room layout different). The cleaner's socket (13A) was in the communal hall outside the rooms.
Anyway, I had plugged into the spare, a Marshall 100W guitar amplifier stack (a valve jobby), a Danset (spelling?) record deck (for playing along to) both wired-up through a single plug (goodness knows how I got the cables in!). Cranked up deafening volume with the deck blasting away never caused a failure of the supply. Pre circuit breaker days I suppose. Ah, happy, care-free days
Yeah, my Dad told me a similar story, looks like quite a lot of old halls back in the day had that arrangement.
He did a roaring trade in round-pin plug tops wired to square pin trailing outlets!
He did a roaring trade in round-pin plug tops wired to square pin trailing outlets!
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