Electrical Question

[Platypus]

I'm sure I've seen in the past a mains adapter cable, one end has a normal 3-pin socket and the other end is bayonet lamp fitting so you can insert it into a lightbulb socket as the power source. Anyone know if these are still around? I've searched Maplin, ScrewFix etc but can't find one.

Thanks.

[Diver]

I'm sure I've seen in the past a mains adapter cable, one end has a normal 3-pin socket and the other end is bayonet lamp fitting so you can insert it into a lightbulb socket as the power source. Anyone know if these are still around? I've searched Maplin, ScrewFix etc but can't find one.

Thanks.

Extremely dangerous if you want my opinion. people would be tempted to load a 6 amp lighting system (1mm/1.5 mm cable) with 13 amp loads that should be operated from a ring main etc, (min 2.5 mm cable at 16 amp - 32 amp).

[realityhack]

Extremely dangerous if you want my opinion.

What he said - that's a house fire (and invalidated insurance) waiting to happen.

[BrowneIssue]

I'm sure I've seen in the past a mains adapter cable, one end has a normal 3-pin socket and the other end is bayonet lamp fitting so you can insert it into a lightbulb socket as the power source. Anyone know if these are still around? I've searched Maplin, ScrewFix etc but can't find one.

IIRC, they were removed from the UK market about 30 years ago. They were the cause of too many fires.

(Besides a lack of sockets generally, people were still plugging irons into them in the 1970s because it is far more convenient to have the lead going UP to the ceiling from an iron. Oh, there's a fire under the floorboards upstairs. Oops, my family have died. Oh, there's no earth on my water-filled iron. Oops I have died.)

[DimPrawn]

I'm sure I've seen in the past a mains adapter cable, one end has a normal 3-pin socket and the other end is bayonet lamp fitting so you can insert it into a lightbulb socket as the power source. Anyone know if these are still around? I've searched Maplin, ScrewFix etc but can't find one.

Thanks.

Gawd, that takes me back.

Damp council house with things plugged into the ceiling. Pushing wires directly into the 13A sockets cos we didn't have any spare plugs. No. 6 wood screws instead of fuses. Life was fun back then when we was poor.

[Sockpuppet]

I have one of those.

Was in a big box my Grandad left me when he died which also contained a .303 round. Indeed they are a good idea for small appliances but I think the use is ore limited now as most places with power have a socket.

[Wilmslow]

I had an Indian guy working with me in a UK office once.

He wanted to plug in his Indian charger.

He used a pen to open the earth pin, then jammed in the plug into the extension lead on my desk!

I protested, but got overruled

[DimPrawn]

I had an Indian guy working with me in a UK office once.

He wanted to plug in his Indian charger.

He used a pen to open the earth pin, then jammed in the plug into the extension lead on my desk!

I protested, but got overruled

It's his Human Right.

HTH

[Sockpuppet]

H eprobably had a PhD in electrical engineering. He knew what he was doing.