UK Outside socket earthing

[jmmrly]

Hi,
I'm located in the UK and replacing my outside double socket plugs with ener-j smart wifi sockets. I've wired it as the picture below, exactly the same as the old one. I used my tester and it's only earthing one plug. There's another earth socket but I didn't need an earth wire in each one in the old socket. I've googled and it looks like most plugs only need earth in one socket, and it connects to the other. I guess this doesn't connect the earths. So do I need to buy some earth wire cover, split the wires (there's two wires in each) and plug one earth wire into the other plug?

Seems silly but thought i'd ask in-case i'm doing something stupid.

 

[Dartlec]

If I recall correctly, the BG external sockets are basically a housing with a standard BG socket installed in anyway, so you might be able to get one of those and straight swap the socket for the one you linked.

 

[7029 dave]

Reterm those connections copper showing , no shiners please.

 

[jmmrly]

Fantastic.
Looks like this would be perfect as it's low profile

It needed sanding quite a bit but got it to the socket to fit in perfectly, and the holes were deep enough for no bare wires to be showing. Used my tester and passed on both sockets. Thanks for your help all, I'm learning plenty!

 

[lozarus]

Just to point out definitely don't split your existing earth wires and put one in each. You'll end up losing earth throughout the circuit if they're not interconnected through the socket. As others have mentioned these sound like they're non compliant.

 

[jmmrly]

Just to point out definitely don't split your existing earth wires and put one in each. You'll end up losing earth throughout the circuit if they're not interconnected through the socket. As others have mentioned these sound like they're non compliant.

The new socket I bought has them connected, I've only put it in one. I got rid of the iffy one from the OP.

 

[lozarus]

The new socket I bought has them connected, I've only put it in one. I got rid of the iffy one from the OP.

Sorry my fault for inadvertently missing out an entire page of the thread. I hate it when people do that and now I'm one of them!