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Please don't criticise our lovely UK plugs just because they are built strong enough to brain a rhino!

LOL! [Linked Image]

Mind you, anyone who thinks BS1363 is hefty should look at the old 15A version of BS546.

C'mon now, 15 amps? Those pins look like they were designed to carry about 100 amps! [Linked Image]

(Tell you what though -- The rounded ends of those pins don't dig it your feet as badly as BS1363.)
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. so why not build something decent when you already have the components in your junk box?

Another advantage to building a short adapter lead is that you're likely to be putting much less strain on the outlets. The travel adapters sometimes put me in mind of those "Christmas tree" adapter mazes where somebody has about six plugs hanging on adapters in one socket.

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It took me a while before I noticed what was wrong....

....the live and neutral are connected to the wrong pins.

It's O.K. There's a 50/50 chance that the plug in the Shucko socket has corrected the polarity error! [Linked Image]

Welcome to ECN!

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