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Has anyone come across any 45-degree 13A sockets I could use in a kitchen? I'm sure I've seen some somewhere, but I can't find anything on the web.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about sockets banked at 45 degrees (like on a workbench), but where the socket is mounted flush on a wall/upstand, but with the socket twisted round, so that when you plug something in the cable comes out at 45 degrees sideways rather than straight down. You see this quite a lot on rackmount PDUs.
The situation at hand is a kitchen island where the counter terminates on an 150mm upstand, and above this there is then a breakfast bar projecting the other side. This means there is only 150mm vertical (of which only the lower 125mm is usable) on which to mount sockets; if standard sockets are used there's too much pressure on the flex coming out of a moulded plug. Problem would be solved with 45-degree sockets.
Other solutions considered are
1. Bank the sockets at 45 degrees (like on a workbench); but this is rejected because of aesthetics and waste of counter space.
2. Use pop-up sockets coming out of the counter: don't like this because it uses space below the counter, and because of risk of ending up with liquid down the hole; but probably this is the fall-back solution.
BTW, if I did locate 45-degree sockets, would regs allow them to be used as described? I know there's a 150mm guidance on mounting sockets above work surface.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about sockets banked at 45 degrees (like on a workbench), but where the socket is mounted flush on a wall/upstand, but with the socket twisted round, so that when you plug something in the cable comes out at 45 degrees sideways rather than straight down. You see this quite a lot on rackmount PDUs.
The situation at hand is a kitchen island where the counter terminates on an 150mm upstand, and above this there is then a breakfast bar projecting the other side. This means there is only 150mm vertical (of which only the lower 125mm is usable) on which to mount sockets; if standard sockets are used there's too much pressure on the flex coming out of a moulded plug. Problem would be solved with 45-degree sockets.
Other solutions considered are
1. Bank the sockets at 45 degrees (like on a workbench); but this is rejected because of aesthetics and waste of counter space.
2. Use pop-up sockets coming out of the counter: don't like this because it uses space below the counter, and because of risk of ending up with liquid down the hole; but probably this is the fall-back solution.
BTW, if I did locate 45-degree sockets, would regs allow them to be used as described? I know there's a 150mm guidance on mounting sockets above work surface.
