[Shop-talk] kid safety & outlets (was: 110vac outlet question)

[nick brearley]

nick brearley wrote:
>
> *In the pictures the live and neutral are the lower two pins. The 
> sleeving can be seen extending along the pin for the first 9mm. It 
> works, by the time the exposed part of the pin makes it out to the 
> open it is disconnected from the supply. Whether it would work on the 
> thinner US pins I don't know.

One possibility would be to use UK 3 flat pin sockets in child 
vulnerable situations and feed them with these:

http://www.powerconnections.co.uk/convert_usjapanchina.htm

What the US inspectors might think could be another matter altogether...

Nick Brearley