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BS 73 Wall plugs and sockets (five ampere two-pin without earthing connection) was first published in 1915, and revised in 1919 with the addition of 15 A and 30 A sizes. By the 1927 revision of BS 73 four sizes of two-pin plugs and sockets were standardized: 2 A, 5 A, 15 A and 30 A.
Example of a Europlug. The Europlug is a flat, non-rewirable two-pole, round-pin domestic AC power plug, rated for voltages up to 250 V and currents up to 2.5 A. [1] It is a compromise design intended to connect low-power Class II appliances safely to the many different forms of round-pin domestic power socket used across Europe.
Though Type K remains by far the most common socket in Danish homes as of January 2024, newssites and industry magazines have warned that plugging a Schuko plug directly into a Type K socket can give noticeable electric shocks to the point of pain, [24] [26] be dangerous to the point of hospitalising, [27] or even be life-threatening. [28] [29 ...
Sockets are combisockets that accept American (A, B) and Europlugs (C) as well as the newly introduced Thai plug (O). Sockets also accept French and Schuko plugs (E, F), but unsafely (without establishing earth contact), therefore the sale of appliances with E or F plugs has been banned. Timor-Leste (East Timor) C, E, F, I 220 V 380 V 50 Hz
These sockets and plugs are four prong (see receptacle chart above) grounding devices (hot–hot–neutral–ground) available in ratings from 15 to 60 A. The voltage rating is 250 V. Of the straight-blade NEMA 14 devices, only 14-50 and 14-30 are in common use and either may be used for home charging of electric vehicles. The 14-30 is limited ...
The parallel and tandem socket accepts normal parallel NEMA 1‐15 plugs and also tandem NEMA 2‐15 plugs. Both pairs of sockets are fed internally by the same supply. A more recent and fairly common version of this type is the T-slot socket, in which the locations of the tandem and the parallel slots were combined to create T-shaped slots.
In Italy, CEI 23-50 is the dominant standard and it also includes Schuko sockets (P 30 = CEE 7/3) and plugs (S 30 = CEE 7/4, S 31 = CEE 7/7, S 32 = CEE 7/17). Appliances are commonly sold with Schuko-type plugs (as well as Europlugs ), while Italian-type plugs have become rare today and almost only power strips, cable reels and adaptors are ...
Many accessories for electrical installations (e.g., wall sockets, switches) sold in the UK are designed to fit into the mounting boxes defined in BS 4662:2006—Boxes for flush mounting of electrical accessories—Requirements, test methods and dimensions, with an 86 mm × 86 mm square face plate that is fixed to the rest of the enclosure by ...