moulded plug

[jelswood]

Hi,
I have a tv that has the power cable fixed behind a built in cupboard. It's now time to update the tv and dont want to have to take all the cupboard down. If I cut the moulded plug on the tv can I rewire a new plug on as normal?

 

[Rockstar94]

I guess you mean cut the new TVs plugtop and feed the cable behind the cupboard otherwise it won't fit? You can cut off the plug top and replace it with a appropriately fused BS1362 plugtop BUT check as this may void your warranty on the TV

 

[jelswood]

Ok thanks. I thought it would be ok. But always like to check

 

[Fin170]

BUT check as this may void your warranty on the TV

It shouldn't, been a lot of who-har about it in other threads

Don't forget to render unusable the old plug so it can't be inserted into a socket (eg cut off the earth pin, hit him with hammer)

 

[Darkwood]

I guess you mean cut the new TVs plugtop and feed the cable behind the cupboard otherwise it won't fit? You can cut off the plug top and replace it with a appropriately fused BS1362 plugtop BUT check as this may void your warranty on the TV

Don't fuel the fire .... as long as the plug is replaced with a suitable plugtop and connected correctly then it wont void any warranty.... the issue is when suppliers try to use it as an excuse to get out of an under warranty repair or replacement ...if the plug top has been replaced correctly they can't void the warranty based on the fact the moulded has been removed.

If i do a kitchen i always issue a PAT cert for a replaced plug top to give the customer security and the scamming suppliers less room for menouvre

 

[telectrix]

and don't forget to replace the 13A fuse with a 3A fuse in the new plug top.

 

[kingeri]

Remember the good old day when you had to fit your own plug to most appliances you bought?

 

[Rockstar94]

Did mention about the fuse wasn't aware of the whole "pluggate" thread, sorry guys!

 

[thomas-1981]

I'm assuming you can remove the moulded plug from the socket?

 

[UNG]

This "Warranty void" thing is a total nonsense. The only issue I have heard of is a refusal by an appliance engineer to work on appliances connected to spur units because they treat removal of the plug from the socket as isolation and they treat removal of the spur unit to disconnect the flex and a qualified electricians job. This could obviously end up being interpreted as "warranty void" by the time the story is tenth hand just because the appliance engineer refused to carry out a repair because he could not isolate the appliance as dictated by his companies working rules

 

[thomas-1981]

If an appliance is hard wired into a flex outlet it should have a double pole switch to isolate it.
And not give engineers an excuse to walk away :teeth_smile:

 

[littledave]

If an appliance is hard wired into a flex outlet it should have a double pole switch to isolate it.
And not give engineers an excuse to walk away :teeth_smile:

yes there should always be isolation, but should it also not be fused

 

[UNG]

If an appliance is hard wired into a flex outlet it should have a double pole switch to isolate it.
And not give engineers an excuse to walk away :teeth_smile:

the appliance engineer refused to carry out a repair because he could not isolate the appliance as dictated by his companies working rules

Removing the plug from the socket is total isolation and how a lot of companies treat an appliance as isolated, a double pole switch has no lock off facility and while it isolates the equipment it could be turned back on while the engineer goes to his van even removing the fuse from a spur unit does not give reliable double pole isolation so plugs it is

 

[Engineer54]

Removing the plug from the socket is total isolation and how a lot of companies treat an appliance as isolated, a double pole switch has no lock off facility and while it isolates the equipment it could be turned back on while the engineer goes to his van even removing the fuse from a spur unit does not give reliable double pole isolation so plugs it is

That's just another load of old cobblers!! If an FCU complies with BS7671 as a perfectly adequate means of DP isolation, then who is a service repair technician to say otherwise?? If the guy is that incompetent, he can always use the MCB/Fuse in the CU to isolate, and that won't be DP either!! lol!!

 

[Brightspark2]

That's just another load of old cobblers!! If an FCU complies with BS7671 as a perfectly adequate means of DP isolation, then who is a service repair technician to say otherwise?? If the guy is that incompetent, he can always use the MCB/Fuse in the CU to isolate, and that won't be DP either!! lol!!

I see what you did there...he said engineer, you say technician...lol

Rightly so too...