Re: "Fantabulosa!" and BS1363
- From: "Ivor Jones" <ivor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:12:20 -0000
"charles" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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In article <47rc10FfsbnuU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ivan <ivan'H'older@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The prefabs built in the late1940s used a weird
dedicated type15 amp round three-pin plug, with the
fuse actually built in to the live pin, this meant that
the complete pin had to be replaced if the fuse blew,
and IIRC they were quite expensive to replace and
impossible to botch with a piece of wire.
those were D&S (Dorman & Smith) ones. The BBC used them
for 'technical supplies' for quite some years, possibly
into the 80s. They were replaced with Walsall guage ones
which look like a convention 13A - but all the pins are
rotated by 90 degrees. London Underground have these in
their stations, too. Stops the guitarists plugging in.
The LT ones are 110V supplies.
We used Walsall plugs for the clean supplies for the computer network in
Stanier House in Birmingham when I worked for British Rail in the late
80's/early 90's. I still have a few somewhere. Watch out if you ever use
them though, they were (are..?) available with or without fuses, and the
fused ones could have fuses in the neutral poles as well..!
Ivor
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