Comments on: Amateur Conversion

By: ToaTom

ToaTom — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:47:18 +0000

they probbably didn’t – lol

By: paddy

paddy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:30:41 +0000

Oi! Oi1 Oi!

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:28:57 +0000

The cool part is that the uneducated fear this, but those of us that know this is very simple and without risk, although I will say that if there are kids or otherwise (fill in your own at risk individuals here) this is a very bad idea. Personally I would have used insulated wires.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:43:37 +0000

Regarding the thing about appliances being sold without plugs in the UK, my parents moved into a place recently that has two electrical systems running through the house. One is a standard UK 3-pin, the other is 3-pin again, but uses round plugs with round pins about 1/3 of the size of a standard plug. We’ve no idea if there’s still a supply to the circuit, or where you’d find plugs to fit into it, but yeah, it must have been an alternative standard at some point. If anyone knows what it was I’d be interested.

By: Levi

Levi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:34:32 +0000

@Neil Hey, There's this thing called a circuit breaker.

By: chinapig

chinapig — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:35:41 +0000

As previously mentioned, UK appliances used to be supplied without a plug. As a kid, I remember several instances in which my dad would simply bare the wires and place them over the holes. Using the earth pin of the plug of another appliance to open the shutters insert the wires into holes. Then, insert plug into socket alongside wires with enough brute force to compensate for the close fitting nature of plug and socket. Voila! added safety feature is that the plug holds the wires tight enough to prevent the wires working loose unlike the rank amateur with the matchsticks ( I remember laughing scornfully at that film )with the bonus of 2 connections for the price of one! Alternatively, just wire 2 cords into one plug although this approach admittedly requires a lesser degree of laziness. NB, my dad was an electrical engineer.

By: Tomo

Tomo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:45:32 +0000

@Kaon
Dunno where you got that idea from, but Switch-Mode Power supplies (SMPs) don’t work like that.

SMPs rectify the input then chop and (hopefully) smooth the output to produce an output with sufficiently low ripple.

There is nowhere inside an SMP that has a higher potential than the peak incoming voltage.

By: Sylph

Sylph — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:29:40 +0000

Funny thing is if they just switched the plug with the plug beside it they wouldn’t have HAD to do that in the first place.

By: N.

N. — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:52:02 +0000

Honey! Where are the room keys?

By: Ford XLT

Ford XLT — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:19:14 +0000

That plugtop logo is in fact Granada tv rentals.