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TimFox:
Flat contact surfaces can be used with leaf springs, but it is hard to get a good contact all around a cylindrical pin.

themadhippy:


--- Quote ---Interestingly you can find those plugs with part plastic sheathed pins, in the style of the more recent 13A plugs. I've never seen them in use, though.
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Theatre  is about the last bastion for them in the uk, used for for dimmer circuits.Reason being is theres only 1 fuse on the circuit instead of 3 or 4,and most of  those plugs might be 30 foot in the air.

TimFox:
I have also seen them with photographic "hot lights" using halogen tungsten bulbs (including long narrow ones).

coppice:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on October 21, 2023, 08:53:43 pm ---

--- Quote ---Interestingly you can find those plugs with part plastic sheathed pins, in the style of the more recent 13A plugs. I've never seen them in use, though.
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Theatre  is about the last bastion for them in the uk, used for for dimmer circuits.Reason being is theres only 1 fuse on the circuit instead of 3 or 4,and most of  those plugs might be 30 foot in the air.

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Ah, that's where they are used. I've seen various pictures of them with shrouded pins, but I've never seen them used in India, which is now the main market for these plugs.

Gyro:

--- Quote from: Connecteur on October 21, 2023, 05:04:55 pm ---Regulations didn't specify that the plug should be big, ugly and awkward.  I'm sure several proposals were made by different parties.  Unfortunately this one was accepted, probably under the belief that "all gain requires pain."

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What IS your problem?   The plug extends 20mm (some less) from the surface of the socket, with no additional cable projection - that makes it more compact in the dimension that matters compared to most other plugs in Europe and the US and more compact in general, when inserted, than any other 3 conductor plug of similar voltage and current rating that comes to mind.

The BS1363 UK plug isn't over-designed, isn't excessively big of awkward. Please indicate and post an image of what you consider to be a smaller, less awkward and more attractive equivalently rated plug if you don't want to be treated as a troll.

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