How to install USA sockets legally

[Adam W]

Is that the only reason?
I would suggest the customer provide conversion transformers, or provide a hairdryer for their guests which works on a proper voltage.

 

[Strima]

So really all he needs is a transformer to knock the voltage down.

Just shows how ignorant some Yanks are, assuming they can travel the world and just plug their hair-dryer in where they want. :lol:

Aren't most laptop power supplies adapted for both voltages and frequencies?

 

[Engineer54]

First off, Crabtree, MK and other accessory manufactures don't only supply the UK market, we have used these face plates in the middle east that tend to use a variety of different outlets for different voltages bands, including the Yank and UK standard accessories...

Why someone would want to install American standard accessories in the UK is beyond me, but i've found over the years they tend to always bring or try to bring America with them wherever they go!!. ...lol!!

As others have stated these outlets can't be safely used on 230V systems least of all ring circuits. They have a 230V outlet that are similar to the 115V design but with a different pin configuration. None of them fused!!! Can't see how any Yank outlet style plates will conform to BS7671!! Apart from anything else they, and the plug tops are crap, thinnest 16A flat pins of any plug top i know of...

If your registered with one of these scam providers, seek there legal advise before doing anything along these lines!!

 

[Knobhead]

When I built my darkroom in the loft of my house I had acquired a fair amount of “Yank” 110V equipment. To be honest I wasn’t impressed with the plugs but decided to stick with them. Most were moulded plugs, so I installed 3 110V radials feeding the new sockets from a 1.5 KVA transformer (phase and neutral). The darkroom was my domain so no danger to any others in the family.

Unshielded outlets do not conform in any way to domestic installations. Unless it’s a controlled situation.


The darkroom was my hide away, once the door was shut and locked I was in my own little world.
Totally autonomous to the rest of the house. Filtered air supply from outside, filtered temperature controlled water, sound and heat insulated, it’s own sound system. My retreat! Until she worked out which MCB fed it!

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Not only do American bases use American plugs and sockets, but they are also used in their personnel quarters, which are frequently off base.
There are a number of little villages in dotted round East Anglia which are built to look like American villages.
I've also worked on a Hilton hotel which had a single American 110V socket in each room. Unfortunately I can't recall any details about the power supplies, other than that one unit supplied two rooms.

 

[Litttle Shonet]

provide a hairdryer for their guests which works on a proper voltage

By this I suppose you mean a 'mans Voltage', not some wussy american toy voltage.

LOL

 

[Engineer54]

Not only do American bases use American plugs and sockets, but they are also used in their personnel quarters, which are frequently off base.
There are a number of little villages in dotted round East Anglia which are built to look like American villages.
I've also worked on a Hilton hotel which had a single American 110V socket in each room. Unfortunately I can't recall any details about the power supplies, other than that one unit supplied two rooms.

As i said, the Yanks can't operate without bringing America with them!! lol!! Probably got a special dispensation for these off base villages, they seem to be able to dictate whatever they want to the British Government. Be interesting to know who paid for the distribution TX's supplying these off base villages though?? lol!!!

I can understand Hotels and such providing 115V outlets in rooms/suites, saves them issuing converter units, which many probably went missing at an alarming rate....lol!!