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Not very exciting but what does the red light on the kitchen plug socket mean?? It says onoff but what does it do. Apparantly its a legal requirement but why?
Oh… scrap that… I thought you said “Red Wife”… as we all know your wife is blue.
pfft I can be so bum some times.
There are 40 amps going through the cable = instant death (assuming you mean for cooker), normal electrical shocks from the rest of the house will give you a jolt but because of the severe ampage it will totally fuck you over – it’s always good to have a very clear way of knowing whether or not it’s live; if it is and exposed you don’t want to be anywhere near it.
electic shower isolator have the same, Lg is right its the Amps, if I remeber correctly any thing over 30 or 40 amps in a domestic setting.
WeT should be able to say ya or nay, as he was the last peep to do the Regs round here ?
Over in the States it is called a g.f.i (ground fault interuptor) , It is there in case you drop an appliance into the sink etc. (plugged in of course). it trips the outlet instead of shocking you to death. 😯
can i just say that 40mA is enough to potentially kill someone….. 😯
When you say the red light max, is that on a normal plug socket or a cooker outlet with a socket on it ?
I don’t remember reading about it being a legal requirement to have an indicator light on a socket but i may have missed that part in the regs………good ole beermonster will be able to tell you more as he’s still a practising sparks…in the meanwhile, i’l dust off my regs book and see what i can find 😉 failing that just assume its an indicator to tell you if the socket is on or off 😉
yeah, its the dual socket, and one of the plugs has a switch with onoff and a light. Nothing seems to happen when you switch it on other then a light coming on??
Stupid question but curious.
Nothing seems to happen when you switch it on other then a light coming on??
What you have there is a ight switch!
lol I believe it just says if the cooker is getting power or not. my house has a switch and light and then a socket and switch on the otherside. so you can plug something normal into it like a microwave.
you cant unplug the cooker like as its normally hardwired into the connector. at least that is what i had to do when i installed my cooker.
@=XDC=MADMAX wrote:
yeah, its the dual socket, and one of the plugs has a switch with onoff and a light. Nothing seems to happen when you switch it on other then a light coming on??
Stupid question but curious.
If you have an electric cooker that it what its wired to. Red light means that the cooker has power running to it.
Remember back in the day “when you were a chav” When you put the microwave on to warm your tin of beans in preparation for the weekly delight of beans on toast. The light on the microwave used to come on when the little tub of beans starting turning around. (wonderful thing this technology business)
The light on the switch and the light in the microwave mean the same thing…. Its on.
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😆i love questions like this from max. 😀
the red neon on the cooker plug is just an indicator as to weather the socket is getting juice. it’s just connected across the live and neutral side of the switch, it’ll say on/off……erm because when it is lit it is on, and when it’s not on…..well the neon is off. 😕
I wouldn’t take it as proof that if the neon is off that there is no juice to the plug, because quite frequently the neon will blow, and the socket will still be live even though the neon is not lit.
i’m pretty certain that there is no legal requirements that there should be a neon on the switch…….i’m almost certain that theres nothing in the reg’s about it ( although WET might prove me wrong, there’s so much bullshit in there) and even if there was something in the regs, they are not a legal document.
on a side note, it IS the amps that will kill you, but anything over 80mA is considered lethal ( i’m told it fucks with the Heart’s T-Cycle and can cause cardiac arrest), that is why you should ALWAYS use a RCD unit for portable equiptment outside the equipotential zone of you house………that means when you mowing the lawn or cutting ya hedge to you MAX. 😛
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