British Standard Bs 1363 Firefox

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A typical BS 1363 plug BS 1363 specifies the most common type of that are used in the,,,,,, and many former. Of these,, and have equivalent standards—IS 401 & 411, MS 589, and SS 145, respectively. The standard was introduced in 1946, shortly after the, as part of a new standard for. Legislation in both the UK and Ireland requires that all domestic electrical goods sold in either country should be fitted with a BS 1363 or IS 401 (as applicable) plug. Other plug types used in the same area include, only used in industrial and some outdoor applications, and, limited to old installations and specialised applications where either the BS 1363 plug is unsuitable or where mateability with the standard variety is not desired (for example, where lamps are controlled by a switch or dimmer). BS 1363 type electrical socket.

Note the closed shutters (red) blocking entry of foreign objects. Crack For Fifa 2002. This style of plug appeared in 1946, shortly after the. Britain had previously used a combination of 5 and 15 amp round pin sockets, where each had to be wired to the distribution board and each provided with its own fuse. As a result of high wartime demands, Britain suffered from a chronic shortage of copper. Further, as a result of enemy action a considerable amount of housing stock had been destroyed. Britain was in the position of having to rapidly rebuild housing for its population and electrically wire it using as little copper as possible.

The solution was the system (often informally called 'ring main');, where, instead of each socket being individually wired, a cable was brought from the fuse or circuit breaker in the distribution board and wired in sequence to a number of sockets before being taken back to the distribution board and wired to the same fuse or circuit breaker. This provided considerable savings in the copper required to wire the circuit. Since the fuse or circuit breaker had to be rated for the maximum current the ring could carry (30 A or 32 A for breaker), it was required that the plugs used to connect to the ring each contained their own fuse rated for the appliance that it connected. Easoinstaller.exe Fifa 07 here. At first there were several competing designs of plug, but the BS 1363 design displaced all of the others. Although the need to economise on the use of copper has long passed, the ring main system has proven so successful that Britain retains the system to this day, even in new build houses. Fuses were originally available in 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 13 amps but by the 1960s, this range had reduced to 2 (blue), 5 (grey), 10 (yellow), and 13 (brown) amps. Plugs are normally supplied fitted with a 13 A fuse, and householders tended not to replace them with a more appropriate size.