SABS updates plug standard with new safety symbol for adaptors

D tj

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When are we going to leave one another to face the consequences of our own really stupid behaviour ....this sticker really...what next the "quality of the adapter" sticker and the warning sticker warning to check the sticker's quality...
Leave stupid to be, they will learn faster that way or still not at all.
 

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Just about all the multiway adapters and plugs sold by the supermarkets and hypermarkets have no SABS mark. They haven't for years. Most of them are rubbish. Hollow thin metal pins, cheap and thin plastic. This is especially seen in the two way or three way adapters supposedly 220-250VAC and 15 amp rated. They wouldn't pass a 2KV Hi-pot test if indeed the SABS specify this now. Time these institutions bought good solid plugs a lot of which were made in South Africa. Time they came back and left the Chinese stuff for the Chinese.
Bought two extension sockets from Buid-it. He claimed they were SABS and the 15A variety that can handle a heater. Could not find any mark on them however and one of them already melted.
 

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No stamp, no label, no SABS approval. ALL the stuff you can get in just about every hardware outlet and supermarket is substandard Chinese manufactured junk.

I make my own extensions and have gradually eliminated ALL extension boxes in the house by doing what another person posted and installed double wall sockets everywhere.
 

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No stamp, no label, no SABS approval. ALL the stuff you can get in just about every hardware outlet and supermarket is substandard Chinese manufactured junk.

I make my own extensions and have gradually eliminated ALL extension boxes in the house by doing what another person posted and installed double wall sockets everywhere.
The issue I have is that all appliances come with a short cord. Heater only has about a meter and even a 3 meter cord on the vacuum doesn't let you get everywhere.
 

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Our main vacuum cleaner has an upgraded 30 m cord on it. All extension cords I make up have a single double socket at the end.
Heaters by default are a problem at the end of a long power cord, because of the excessive current that flows for extended periods. Very bad practice to feed them with extension cords. So, the oil heaters I have I have upgraded the cords to 15 m long with heavy gauge cables (4mmsq).
Extension cords in my house are all 2.5 mm sq cable.
 

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I've always found it odd how a country can push ahead with a new socket standard when they can't even power sockets properly without load shedding? Its like planning the shiny new mags for your car when your engine can't run more than 2km without breaking down.
 

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I've always found it odd how a country can push ahead with a new socket standard when they can't even power sockets properly without load shedding? Its like planning the shiny new mags for your car when your engine can't run more than 2km without breaking down.
Different departments, different responsibilities.

Your statement would make sense if it was Eskom spending time on new socket outlet standards instead of providing electricity. For the 95% of the time that we do have electricity it does make sense that we use safely (i.e. standards).
 

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Your statement would make sense if it was Eskom spending time on new socket outlet standards instead of providing electricity. For the 95% of the time that we do have electricity it does make sense that we use safely (i.e. standards).
True, a new and better standard is good as well. But if there was any cost to do it from the country (whatever it at may be) I'm thinking it could be potentially delayed a bit as government and consumers are struggling economically. Although it seems we're pretty far down this change of standard?
 

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SANS-164-0-symbol-of-adaptors-not-permitted-to-be-plugged-in-one-another.jpg


Is that an international symbol?
Is is a meaningful symbol? In any case terribly done, even though aiming for fewer electrical fires is worthwhile.

Perhaps children could be taught to colour it in, to show where each adapter/plug/socket begins and ends.
 

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True, a new and better standard is good as well. But if there was any cost to do it from the country (whatever it at may be) I'm thinking it could be potentially delayed a bit as government and consumers are struggling economically. Although it seems we're pretty far down this change of standard?
I think the standard is done and dusted. This is the public education and adoption phase.
 

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Different departments, different responsibilities.

Your statement would make sense if it was Eskom spending time on new socket outlet standards instead of providing electricity. For the 95% of the time that we do have electricity it does make sense that we use safely (i.e. standards).
Same incompetence.
 
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