At least put it inside a adapatable/project box rather than just taping it up!
Can anyone identify this connector?
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At least put it inside a adapatable/project box rather than just taping it up!
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Just do what my European colleagues do. Ram a pen into the third pin to open the gates and gingerly/forcibly ram the bottom in with a level of contortion only a frenchman without an adaptor can manage.
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Why are so many people posting unhelpful replies that are supposed to be "funny"? If you don't know just don't post a response? 
Am I out of touch or is my comment legit? Idk.
Am I out of touch or is my comment legit? Idk.
Yes, I can confirm it's definitely a plug. I have many of them, here's a photo of one:
I hope your smoke alarms have been tested recently, looking at that left pin.
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you're telling me this is literally just a USB charger? Just get another for like 4p man.
No, I'm telling you on two different occasions that it's a USB-C charger for a Macbook Pro. As anything decent starts at £40, I'd like to see if I can maybe replace the plug for a fiver.
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I know it sounds like I was joking but this does work with the least faff.
I do it for my tooth brush all the time.
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This plug was fitted to an air curtain. It was fused at 13a and the fuse was clearly never gonna blow, even when the air curtain was at max and drawing over 20a. This air curtain was designed to be connected to a fused spur, not a bloody plug.
The fact that the screws holding the cable in the plug are missing, as well as the insulation woefully inadequate just meant that it was a disaster waiting to happen.
It's one of the nightmares I found when PAT testing this year, and this was signed off as passed last year.
These were also signed off by the same person:
I save these photos for the "herp derp pat testing is stupid" people.
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You say it’s a work laptop, just ask work for another charger? If I broke my work laptop charger I wouldn’t be paying for a new one!
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I LOL'd
I used to do general auditing, mostly for security stuff. It is amazing what some people will sign off - I've literally seen supposedly secure rooms with the key on a peg labelled security key right outside and even sometimes below it the safe code on a sticky label more than once.
(Don't get me started on blocked fire exits)
Also not just a movie thing is it amazing how far a high vis and a clipboard will get you - one of my colleagues had it down to an art form.
Those are often proprietary connectors even though many adapter plugs that come with devices like routers, STBs etc all have a similar sliding wall socket connector that attaches to the "brick". You could fish around and use an already existing plug that might just fit the same sliding track but chances are these Chinese companies add a notch or the locking latch on the inside to keep it in place is a different shape to the other one you find or the pins are in a different position and don't make secure contact with the brick making it a spark risk and fire hazard.
It's a cheap charger, buy another, cheap chargers are risky enough as it is, why double the risk by trying to find and then attach a non-standard fitment attachment that was not designed for it. Tell your wife it's a safety risk and then show her photos of peoples houses that have burned and maybe a charred body or two to let the message sink in.
Safety should be taken seriously!
It's a cheap charger, buy another, cheap chargers are risky enough as it is, why double the risk by trying to find and then attach a non-standard fitment attachment that was not designed for it. Tell your wife it's a safety risk and then show her photos of peoples houses that have burned and maybe a charred body or two to let the message sink in.
Safety should be taken seriously!
This is a very valid point, why are work providing crappy chargers for a MacBook Pro? It's a work laptop, ask them for a new and proper charger.
It's a work laptop from a previous job so can't really ask them to fork out, she's a scientist so even though no longer working for them she still does some collaboration with them so they let her hold on to the laptop.
I don't understand why I have to get into this level of detail, do you not think we'd have thought of that?
Thanks, but it is a safe charger that wasn't really that cheap considering, I take safety seriously and never would have bought it if I thought it was a hazard. I was hoping to find an official plug to replace it with.
Always boggles me how you ask a simple question on the Internet looking for a simple answer and people start lecturing you about trying to be a better person and that you have to explain to your wife, who has a PhD, about fire safety. Guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Considering this is in GD, you've got off lightly to just get some relatively sensible warnings about safety and not 47 ****posts about divorcing your wife
We are not far off that really ha
Even people with masters degrees can lack awareness of risks in any manner of things, it's not meant as anything offensive, we all need a reminder from time to time on various things!
You said it was a cheap charger hence the comments about safety, I can see a brand logo on that image looking at it closer, Inateck? They seem to be a decent third party who make various USB and power related stuff like Anker/Choetech. It's just when you hear people mention cheap charger, the worst is assumed because that is typically exactly what it is.
Unless a tweet/message to Inateck gets a response, you probably won't be finding the exact same sliding track on another plug that isn't by the same maker.
Jesus H Christ.
We haven't had PAT testing at our place in about a decade... They asked me to do it and I refused knowing not only the office politics of our place being a faff but the fact they'd not take my advice, they never do. I stood my ground and told them to get an external company to do it, properly, with a detailed report and recommendations. This was about 5 years ago, and I said the same last year too.
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