Interesting new socket outlet!

[sparksburnout]

worra load of crap.

If you follow the link you will see some equally potty plonka has designed a PAPER cycle helmet. Apparently it is able to collapse to make it easy to carry. Probably collapses to make it easier to bash your head in as well.

 

[PEG]

...and they laughed at my cordless generator...

 

[SparkySy]

Some very interesting and valid points so far.
This is one of those things that may make it to sale eventually but probably by that time something better would have been conjured up!

 

[KEV 1 N]

They’re on sale already!........

Haha just wait a few years and some fool will be trying “attach” their phone cable to an old blanked off socket!

 

[Squid]

They’re on sale already!........
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Haha just wait a few years and some fool will be trying “attach” their phone cable to an old blanked off socket!

Hmmmmm stick a couple of magnets on the inside of the plate and you could wind a load of people up.......

 

[Lucien Nunes]

This replaces six pieces of metal with a bunch of electronics that have distinctly finite lifespan and less than 100% efficiency, and in the form described, 100W limit i.e. only 3% of the power handling capacity of a 13A plug. It's basically a SMPSU with a split transformer, so expect to change them as often as you change LED drivers. The toothbrush charger gets away with it because of its tiny power transfer requirement, <1W.

IMHO the best way to make a safer plug is to make a safer plug, not to replace it with a radio transmitter. I designed one when I was 16, even talked about it on TV. It had the load indicator, switch interlock, auto-adjusting OCPD in the socket that sensed the load rating from the plug and couldn't exceed the flex rating, contacts that wouldn't hurt your foot if you trod on the plug, rewirable plugs that could safely be fitted by non-technical users, etc. Back then it was too expensive to produce, but wouldn't have been more expensive than this setup. And it was good for 20A.

 

[mossep]

I think we have a perfectly safe plug and socket at the moment. Ive never tried - because Im not stupid - but Im sure you cannot touch any live pins of plug anyway, they are insulated and only become live when they are inserted to the point where the meets insulation on the pins the socket. You also cannot put anything into the live terminals of a socket as they have shutters on them. Anyone who does manage it deserves an electric shock! Id be more concerned about a table lamp with the lamp removed than a plug and socket, much more likely to get a belt from that if you are a bit simple and like poking around in things...

 

[Baddegg]

They’re on sale already!........
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Haha just wait a few years and some fool will be trying “attach” their phone cable to an old blanked off socket!

Hope I get a call out to fix...

 

[Squid]

This replaces six pieces of metal with a bunch of electronics that have distinctly finite lifespan and less than 100% efficiency, and in the form described, 100W limit i.e. only 3% of the power handling capacity of a 13A plug. It's basically a SMPSU with a split transformer, so expect to change them as often as you change LED drivers. The toothbrush charger gets away with it because of its tiny power transfer requirement, <1W.

IMHO the best way to make a safer plug is to make a safer plug, not to replace it with a radio transmitter. I designed one when I was 16, even talked about it on TV. It had the load indicator, switch interlock, auto-adjusting OCPD in the socket that sensed the load rating from the plug and couldn't exceed the flex rating, contacts that wouldn't hurt your foot if you trod on the plug, rewirable plugs that could safely be fitted by non-technical users, etc. Back then it was too expensive to produce, but wouldn't have been more expensive than this setup. And it was good for 20A.

You must be a bundle of laughs at parties.......... ;o)))))

 

[Adam W]

...and they laughed at my cordless generator...

Probably because I had already invented the generatorless cord.

 

[pirate]

Only more boring thing is to discuss fonts at parties...

Our mains plugs and sockets work, very well...

Wireless is brilliant for phones etc...

Drilling into a wall? A screwdriver is fine for plasterboard...

A SDS drill is better for a brick wall...

Horses for courses! (did you see what I did there?)

probably not...