"The Great Debate" - Plug Top or just Plug?

[Dustydazzler]

Do you mean 3phase plug tops?

Is that the big Red Plug Top

 

[Pete999]

Is that the big Red Plug Top

Or the big Blue one

 

[Rpa07]

I fear that all this conversation about electrical accessories has just turned into a mass debate - good to see @GeorgeCooke out of his cave post hibernation - someone feed him some honey please

 

[pirate]

I just knew someone would bring up the mass debaters line!

 

[ruston]

I just knew someone would bring up the mass debaters line!

Is that because you are a ships master?

 

[pirate]

No , but I have some able seamen!

 

[pirate]

Sun is over the yardarm, so I'm off to the pub

 

[Dave OCD]

No. It is a plug for a bath (you would need to quote the size in mm).

It is a plug for an electrical device (you will need to quote the size 5A, 15A, 13A etc and the fuse value if the latter).

So E.G. I need a 35mm plug for my bath, preferably white.

OR. I need a 13A plug with a 5A fuse for my table lamp.

I'd always fit a 3 amp fuse for a table lamp.

 

[ferg]

I'd always fit a 3 amp fuse for a table lamp.

Me too but some Electricians aren't very bright.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

With incandescent lights a 3 amp fuse will often blow when the bulb fails, a 5amp one won't.

But the fuse is to protect the cable not the lamp on the end of it.

As you say: some Electricians aren't very bright.

 

[Dave OCD]

And how many table lamps actually use old GLS filament lamps these days, very few I'd suggest. All the table lamp manufacturers who fit 3 amp fuses during manufacture can't be very bright either I suppose ?

 

[Dustydazzler]

Only ever use 13a and 5a fuses in plug tops

 

[telectrix]

With incandescent lights a 3 amp fuse will often blow when the bulb fails, a 5amp one won't.

But the fuse is to protect the cable not the lamp on the end of it.

As you say: some Electricians aren't very bright.

what about the lamps/bulbs along the circuit, not at the end? don't they require protection also?

 

[telectrix]

Only ever use 13a and 5a fuses in plug tops

both at the same time? piggybacked? and what fuses do you fit in plug bottoms

 

[DPG]

what about the lamps/bulbs along the circuit, not at the end? don't they require protection also?

Don't wind him up Tel. That's my job

 

[ferg]

The 3a fuse is a habit from pat testing where rewirable plug tops on items <700w should have 3a fuses. Anything else 13a.

Although a 750w led bulb in the table light would make me a very bright electrician indeed.
It would certainly make it easier to see while I'm terminating my satellite cable.

 

[littlespark]

Some electricians are not very bright, are they?

There’s no need to get personal.
It’s simply a difference of opinion. I’m not saying what’s right or what’s wrong.... just what I call it.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

And how many table lamps actually use old GLS filament lamps these days, very few I'd suggest. All the table lamp manufacturers who fit 3 amp fuses during manufacture can't be very bright either I suppose ?

Not many I agree. You are right about manufacturers. Most don't know the fuse is to protect the cable not the lamp on the end of it.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

Only ever use 13a and 5a fuses in plug tops

How? There is nowhere to put a fuse in the top.

 

[GeorgeCooke]

what about the lamps/bulbs along the circuit, not at the end? don't they require protection also?

Bulbs have built in protection. Most of the rest of the world don't have fuses in plugs and don't come to harm.