is it legal for a UK 13A mains plug to _not_ have a fuse? dodgy camera battery charger?

David Robinson · 2011-06-23T09:33:01+00:00

I've just bought a replacement camera battery charger from eBay.Three things about it make me concerned.Firstly, it gets hot. As in "almost wouldn't want a small child totouch it" hot.Secondly, it never said the battery was fully charged. It keptcharging (with the light red, rather than green), long after thebattery must have been fully charged.Thirdly, the supplied cable has a standard IEC_60320 C7/C8 at one end,but a UK mains plug without a fuse at the other end. The mains plug isvery small and almost clover leaf shaped - barely 5mm larger than thepins in any direction.Is it legal to have a UK plug without a fuse when it feeds a flex? Theplug is marked 250V 10A.Interestingly, the IEC_60320 C7 plug is optimistically marked 250V 25A(I doubt it could handle 3A).Cheers,David.

Jun 23, 2011 43 Replies

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GB 15 years ago

instant performance boost for any make of hi-fi equipment"

Pure joy! Thanks for that.

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Andrew Gabriel 15 years ago

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Interesting, although when they talked about the charger supplied for use in the US and even then the pins were bent, it's actually a charger for Australia and the pins are exactly as they are meant to be.

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