The end of electrical adapters that block your socket switches

[Hanno Labuschagne]

The end of electrical adapters that block your socket switches

The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has changed the country’s plug and socket standard to ensure that there is a gap between an electrical adapter and the switch on a wall socket or multiplug.

These changes were introduced with the recent amendments to the South Africa National Standard, 164 Part 0: General requirements (SANS 164-0).

“We’ve allowed an 8mm gap between the end of the pin and the surface of the adapter,” said Gianfranco Campetti, the the chair of the technical committee for the SANS 164 family of standards.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Hopefully that includes all the crappy adapter sold by Pick n Pay, Checkers, Spar, Game etc. Most of them are of suspect quality. But then people keep on buying them, most times as they are not give a choice of products, but that is another issue.

 

[SilverCode]

How much longer until we have a myplugsocket.co.za spinn-off site?

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

How much longer until we have a myplugsocket.co.za spinn-off site?

To what purpose?

 

[Dolby]

I bought one of those Powercubes yesterday - neat device !

 

[Swa]

Until you get to one of those wall sockets where it just doesn't work out this way.

 

[markings]

And here I thought they want to get rid of adapters.