13A Plug tops with neon light

[Mike]

I can't find these anywhere. Is there an electrical regulations reason why they are no longer avaialable?

- Mike (who likes to fit them to my soldering irons so that I don't leave them switched on).

[Bob Eager]

Google for '13a plug neon' and there are lots.

MOst have switches too, but that's OK. I have some here.

[Clive Arthur]

I like these...

(or eBay item number: 331604981382)

Cheers

[Judith]

I have used one of these before:

(I wanted one which was in an extension socket on the floor and I could on/off it with my foot)

[Bob Minchin]

If you want a quantity, these are better priced

[tabbypurr]

£12.99 each? Lord, what's wrong with putting a neon in the plug. For t hin wires it's visible at the cord exit. A separate plug with neon also has its uses.

NT

[ss]

For 5 = £2.60 each.

[tabbypurr]

or thin wires it's visible at the cord exit. A separate plug with neon also has its uses.

still a daft price.

NT

[Davidm]

Sort of related but I've been looking for a single socket extension lead with a switch in the socket (I only need 1m length but am happy to cut down a longer one and fit a new plug). For indoor use only, and

3 to 5 amp is fine. Anyone seen one (UK plug/socket)?

[Huge]

It ain't pretty (but then, it's out of sight), but I mounted a pattress and a switch single socket on a small piece of wood to achieve the same effect. Wired it up with flex, cable tie inside the pattress and a cable P clip outside for strain relief - it passed a PAT test in my MIL's care home, which is where it originally was.

[dennis]

Isn't it easier to fit one of these to the appliance?

[Max Demian]

Won't work for a wall wart.

[Huge]

Not when you don't have one, and everything came out of the junk box.

Nothing dennis suggest works. I'm astonished that anyone still doesn't have him killfiled. His postings are a waste of electrons and he's a waste of space-time continuum.

[Judith]

Perhaps you can find an alternative at a better price then.

Or did you say "still a daft price" just because you f***ed up?

It is an excellent item at a good price.

[tabbypurr]

. For thin wires it's visible at the cord exit. A separate plug with neon a lso has its uses.

I can. If I walk 20 feet I can find one that cost me an unused plug and an unused neon.

People are strange these days.

NT

[spuorgelgoog]

Metalclad socket, box, and a 20mm gland.

Owain

[PeterC]

Not quite what you want (and I would like) and also no good outside:

It has a switch and light for each way.

[ARW]

I disagree, dennis is quite useful.

Just ask him to predict the outcome of something and then nip down to the bookies and put £20 on the opposite happening.

[Judith]

Indeed : I am surprised that so many people cannot afford to or three quid for something and would rather spend their time making a pig's ear.

Perhaps you could put together your unused plug and the neon and show the rest of us how to do it and then we can all save a few bob.

[tabbypurr]

lug. For thin wires it's visible at the cord exit. A separate plug with neo n also has its uses.

an unused neon.

it takes no longer than wiring the plug, and the result is not a pig's ear. Thus spending 5 as much for no gain is senseless.

If you can't even wire a plug I doubt I can help.