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OK Paul. I should have known...considering I do own 5-amp two pin and three pin plugs!

My question now is, was the two-pin and three-pin 5-amp plug ever commonly used in India?

Everything I've seen about Indian electrical installations involves 15-amp plugs....three-pin. Same as the South Africans.

djk,
We have always used the 230/400V system here in New Zealand.
Maybe Dapo or others could confirm this, but I'm sure that Australia still uses the 240/415V nomenclature.
Just as a note, where on earth does that word "nomenclature" come from?
And what does it mean?!.

All the current references for India just give the 15A BS546 connectors, but I wouldn't be surprised if the 5A versions were also used at one time under British influence.


From the Concise Oxford Dictionary:

nomenclature n. Person's or community's system of names for things; terminology of a science etc.; systematic naming. (French, from Latin nomenclatura).

nomenclator n. Slave etc. orig. in ancient Rome with duty of announcing names of persons met, usher assigning places at banquet; giver or inventor of names, esp. in scientific classification. (From Latin nomen=name, calare=call.)