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The Arlec ones are crap, I recently bought four and some of them have the contacts misaligned, can't plug into them.
I once asked an electrician I know to replace a broken light switch with an Arlec one I had already purchased. He did it, but he demonstrated to me the difference in quality between a HPM one he had, and the Arlec one I had bought. Even with no wires in the holes, the screws on the Arlec one were binding as I tightened them.
Anything by Arlec is rubbish. A brand to avoid.
Perfect to hook up dual uncertified xiaomi power boards.
I could of swore these were banned at some stage….
I'm sure they were too…back from the dead?….zombie plugs, don't bring them home
I think they were banned by some businesses/industries perhaps, but in any case they are generally not a smart item to use in your home if you really care about the safety of your family, in my opinion.
why's that?
Correct. OHS would have a fit if they saw it in a business environment. In your own home though? Nah, go ahead and burn it down.
cheers, that's just mostly scare mongering. Especially the bit about getting zapped by partially dislogded plugs.
powerboards are worse as they distribute the 10Amps over 4,6,8 sockets, not just two.
but as the article points out, they do generally have overload protection/cut out which is safter. But these days most electrical devices in the home wouldn't even go close to overloading a 8 way powerbaord, let alone a double adaptor. In out house, only the Hairdryer, toaster, kettle & fridge/freezer would exceed 5Amps - i.e. so you shouldn't plug a combo of these into a double adaptor, but the other 56 items plugged in don't even go close, in fact I doubt even a random combo of 10 devices plugged into a single power point would exceed the 10Amps).There is a risk. Household power circuits are usually rated at 16 Amps, and have a 16 Amp circuit breaker. Usually there is more than one power point on each circuit.
Here's how you could easily come to grief. In the kitchen, if you were to plug in the microwave (900W) and the kettle (2000W) into this double adaptor, the total current is 12A. Kettle and toaster are another bad combination, and these are frequently used at the same time, at breakfast. Or in the middle of winter, a fan heater and a hairdryer in the bathroom will also exceed 10A. In all cases, you are overloading the double adaptor, but the circuit breaker in your fusebox won't trip.
In the worst case, with 15A combined load, the double adaptor will be dissipating 2.25 times its rated heat (the limitation is really heat, not current). It's not insignificant heat either - next time you boil a kettle, after it has boiled, unplug it and touch the pins of the wall plug. They are hot, and that heat didn't come from the water in the kettle.
Another bad combination that I have seen in my house is fan heater and iron. Fortunately, they were plugged into a powerboard, and it tripped, so it was a "learning experience" for all of us.
@Russ: everything is a risk. Sure if you plug in appliances which draw more then 10Amps into a powerpoint, then of course your risk of a fire increases dramatically. But the risk of doubke adaptors are veey very small. Like anything if used correctly then that risk is negligible. Most electrical devices in the house don't draw even close to 5Amps each. So for most devices they're safe.
Bullplop, bullplop, bullplop.
Make sure you wipe afterwards.
No it's not. They're illegal to use on Victorian building sites and workplaces. Other states follow the same suit too. Do your research before you speak.
Where in Victoria are they banned for use in domestic situations?
And which other states have followed suit?
Do you reckon Tradesmenontime might have a vested interest in their scare campaign?
These types of double adaptor have been used (in my own experience) for over 50 years - love to see the stats on how many fires they have caused when used correctly.
They're illegal to use on Victorian building sites and workplaces.
Ahh damn. I misspelled domestic.
"Where in Victoria are they banned for use in domestic situations?"
As far as I noticed, no-one said they were banned in domestic situations. But as mentioned, they have no overload protection and also having two cables weighing down on a single 3-pin connection (where the adapter plugs into the powerpoint) increase the risk of the connection becoming loose and arcing.
Permitted in domestic situations, just more risky than powerboards.
They're illegal to use on Victorian building sites and workplaces.
Nope they're only illegal on building sites
From the Union OSHREP websitehttp://www.ohsrep.org.au/faqs/ohs-reps-@-work-electrical-saf…
In Victoria, under a mandated industry standard, double adaptors cannot be used on building sites.
There is no legislation which prevents the use of double adaptors in other other workplaces.@jdr: but the risk is still fairly small. but yes powerboards usually are safer.
when it comes down to it, in Victoria, electrical fires are 1/2 as common as cooking fires. That's electrical fires resulting from wiring, equipments, powerboards/double adaptors malfunctions.
No worries, people are quite free to use them. I just don't want to expose my family nor property to an unnecessary increased risk as compared to load protected powerboards.
Ok, and?
(Arlec cheaper and 10A)