Hey, this looks worrying. Do these pins ever break off and get left in the sockets? I'd rather risk a long neck chain than have bits of live pin sticking out over the kitchen worktop.
Surely time to reverse the insulated pins legislation.
This standard is young, as are the plugs that were required by it.
The plugs I have referred to are used in commercial/industrial situations.
Now the alternative is using something like a 56 Series PDL plug and socket arrangement for your welders and other electrical tools.
The price of these plugs and sockets are out of this world.
When you are required to work in most places doing maintenance, you are met with the standard plug, not the 56 Series, mainly because no-one wants to spend the money to install proper socket outlets, hence a 1.5mm˛ cord going into a plug that was never designed to take that size of cord.
Sure we could make up a whole set of wired adaptors, but why in reality should we have to?
This legislation will never be reversed, it is set in stone now, it is a mind-set within the folks that make our rules.
