quick question 2 pin plugs...

Adam_151 said:
Shavers are of class two construction and don't require have anything to connect to earth, in addition shaver outlets in bath and shower rooms provide something called 'protection by electricial separation'; theres a transformer in there to acheive this, and you cannot get a shock between either of the two conductors and ground, because there is no path back from ground, when running your shaver in the bathroom.. there is no concept of earth or neutral on the circuit supplying your shaver from the transformer in the outlet ;)

EDIT: nice pic here! http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/5.8.4.htm
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Tke it your a sparkie by trade then :p
 
badbob said:
If you plug a shaver into ac mains (3 pin wall socket) with an adaptor your shaver will go pop. Possibly catch fire.

You plug it into bathroom shaver socket.
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Tripe. Unless a shaver is specifically 110v, which any sold in the uk are extremely unlikely to be.
 
Two pin shaving socket in bathroom or two pin/three pin adapter for the rest of the house, it isn’t rocket science. :p
 
If you jab the earth pin in the socket with something so that the covers over the live and neatral sockets are freed, a 2 pin plug will actually fit into a UK 3 pin socket.... :D

Not that I advise anyone does the above!!!
 
With the only overcurrent protection being the 30A/32A fuse/breaker back at the board! :eek:

Doesn't work with modern MK socket outlets btw ;)
 
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