Old 2 amp small round pin plug help!

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Simon_

I've never come across this before, but I've just seen in a house a flat screen tv on a wall with the usual removable mains cable but the plug has been chopped off to fit an old 2A small plug with round pins on and into an a single round pin socket. Surely this isn't safe to run the tv on? Can it be replaced with a standard socket to run the correct mains cable?
 
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it must be because it's been wired into the lighting. the 2A socket has been fitted to prevent anyone plugging in too heavy a load. best left alone.
 
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yeah. if you look at the rating label, it's only about 60-70watts, and we allow 100watts for a single light fitting.
 
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Simon_ said:
I've never come across this before, but I've just seen in a house a flat screen tv on a wall with the usual removable mains cable but the plug has been chopped off to fit an old 2A small plug with round pins on and into an a single round pin socket. Surely this isn't safe to run the tv on? Can it be replaced with a standard socket to run the correct mains cable?
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When i rewired my parents house many moons ago, i ran two separate 2A socket outlet circuits for table lights and lamp stands etc. Both switched from the lighting points, in the lounge and dining rooms and fed by 5A MCBs. Can't remember now but i think maybe 3 or 4 in each of the rooms. It made sense in the fact, you wasn't taking up ring circuit outlet just to supply a table lamp, which my parents preferred using, to the central room light...
 
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Engineer54 said:
When i rewired my parents house many moons ago, i ran two separate 2A socket outlet circuits for table lights and lamp stands etc. Both switched from the lighting points, in the lounge and dining rooms and fed by 5A MCBs. Can't remember now but i think maybe 3 or 4 in each of the rooms. It made sense in the fact, you wasn't taking up ring circuit outlet just to supply a table lamp, which my parents preferred using, to the central room light...
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all in cotton covered vir singles in wood channelling?
 
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Simon_ said:
I've never come across this before, but I've just seen in a house a flat screen tv on a wall with the usual removable mains cable but the plug has been chopped off to fit an old 2A small plug with round pins on and into an a single round pin socket. Surely this isn't safe to run the tv on? Can it be replaced with a standard socket to run the correct mains cable?
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IMO that's a really lazy, short sighted way of doing it. Chances are it was done because the customer didn't want any mess made or something so the telly was cobbled onto the lighting circuit, and the cowboy who did it seemed to think that using a 2A plug and socket makes everything alright. The reality however is that someone will probably come along and change the socket to a 13A one 'for convenience' like you were thinking of doing.
2A sockets have their place, which as mentioned is to use on the lighting circuit, for lights, so they can be switched with the rest of the lights. They're not for putting other appliances on because someone can't be bothered doing the job properly. IMO they should be installed near 13A sockets so nobody is tempted to change them.
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NovusSparkus said:
IMO that's a really lazy, short sighted way of doing it. Chances are it was done because the customer didn't want any mess made or something so the telly was cobbled onto the lighting circuit, and the cowboy who did it seemed to think that using a 2A plug and socket makes everything alright. The reality however is that someone will probably come along and change the socket to a 13A one 'for convenience' like you were thinking of doing.
2A sockets have their place, which as mentioned is to use on the lighting circuit, for lights, so they can be switched with the rest of the lights. They're not for putting other appliances on because someone can't be bothered doing the job properly. IMO they should be installed near 13A sockets so nobody is tempted to change them.
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so does that mean i've got to cut the BC plug off my lady's iron?
 
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mmm took some outlast year. it was installed 1926. only fault was the vir insulation had perished at the ends. tinplate JBs with the cable clamps providing cpc continuity through the JBs.
 
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telectrix said:
mmm took some outlast year. it was installed 1926. only fault was the vir insulation had perished at the ends. tinplate JBs with the cable clamps providing cpc continuity through the JBs.
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Not bad then, for nearly 85 years. ...I've seen many first class lead surface work in industrial type outbuilding installations.

I bet that the insulation further down the cable was almost in perfect condition too, in that wiring you took down last year.... :detective:
 
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A while back a company a worked for was replacing two 1940’s open slate MCC panels with over 100 drives on each. They had a lot of VIR SWA’s running out in to plant. Samples of the cables were sent to BICC as it was then for testing, because the plant was always cool and the cables over sized they told us to leave them be. Saved a fortune.

As for 2A sockets I’ve used them myself for table and standard lamps. Stopped the wife blowing the dimmer units up plugging the Hoover in them.
 
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telectrix said:
What? you can get radio 2 in Cardiff now???? next thing is you'll get television
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In the valleys,we look to Cardiff to show us whats possible for us in the next 20 years, so dont knock it tel
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