Red electric plugs used for computers

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Hi.

I am desperately seeking a place where I could buy those red electrical plugs that computers use where the middle prong (earth) is kind of smaller.

You can't fit a normal 3 prong in them.

I hope my brilliant definition is clear enough?:D
 
Are you looking for the plugs or the sockets? The sockets are usually installed by an electrician... but the electrician should also be able to source the plugs for you.

Most electrical dealers should carry them, but they are a bit more expensive than the usual plugs... upwards of R15 a plug.

We get outs from Main Hardware here in Joburg.

Let me know if you don't come right as we right smack next door to an electrical wholesaler.
 
They are calling 'protected circuit plugs' - generally a circuit that runs from UPS (our office uses this too)
Would recommend chatting to an electrical wholesaler, and also i practice DONT plug in laser printers into these sockets - you're going to cause havoc *


*Personal Experience
 
Anthropoid said:
They are calling 'protected circuit plugs' - generally a circuit that runs from UPS (our office uses this too)
Would recommend chatting to an electrical wholesaler, and also i practice DONT plug in laser printers into these sockets - you're going to cause havoc *


*Personal Experience
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Correct. The middle prong is filed flat, so a normal plug cannot go in there.
 
Thanks for replies.

The red sockets are in already (in gvmt clinics) but now the computers need the actual plugs.

Would a small laser printer draw too much power for them?

I am in Cape Town, anyone know of an electical dealer that might have?

Thanks again.
 
Most electrical distributors should keep them, they are pretty common.
 
Ja, I dunno what the problem is with laser printers... they draw the same power and hertz cycles as any other computer device?
 
It's not the power drawn by the laser printers, more the horrible noise they generate back onto the mains that causes the problems.
 
the problem is........ the kettle plug is more well known, we are talking about the part that plugs into the kettle not the wall side.
 
Brawler said:
Thanks for replies.

The red sockets are in already (in gvmt clinics) but now the computers need the actual plugs.

Would a small laser printer draw too much power for them?

I am in Cape Town, anyone know of an electical dealer that might have?

Thanks again.
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We buy them all the time from Communica in Woodstock.
http://www.communica.co.za/contactus.aspx
 
Anthropoid said:
They are calling 'protected circuit plugs' - generally a circuit that runs from UPS (our office uses this too)
Would recommend chatting to an electrical wholesaler, and also i practice DONT plug in laser printers into these sockets - you're going to cause havoc *


*Personal Experience
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viven said:
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BTW it's called a UPS kettle plug...
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The amount of misinformation in this thread is a bit worrying. No offense to the good-intent though.

Brawler you're looking for dedicated 16A 3-pin plugtops. It comes standard with a D-pin earth.

Blue UPS socket outlets have 45 degree D-pins earths.

The red dedicated socket outlets are on circuits which are not on Earth Leakage. A kettle shouldn't come anywhere near such circuits.

http://www.ellies.co.za/index.php?id=1586
 
kayvee said:
It's not the power drawn by the laser printers, more the horrible noise they generate back onto the mains that causes the problems.
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The interference caused by lasers was bad news for the UPS (not so much the mains) and was mainly related to the high power draw of the older lasers.

I have been told - but have not confirmed - that the newer lasers (which run at a far lower current draw) are no longer a problem.
 
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