I am looking for some metalclad sockets that (a) don't cost a fortune (b) have flush sides when the faceplate is on, so I can butt them up box-to-box (c) have sockets with USB power
(a) rules out MK (b) and (c) appear to rule out Screwfix/LAP, Toolstation/Axiom, CPC/Pro-Elec, TLC/Telco and Contactum
(c) is negotiable but (b) isn't. I really don't want to have to use bushes, or nipples with locknuts, between the boxes.
Any ideas for other ranges to look at?
Owain
All faceplates overlap the wall sockets
Not necessarily, I have seen some that are edge flush.....
How about:
Knightsbridge do some with USB and minimal faceplate overhang:
The Knightsbridge ones appear to have a significant-enough overhang the back boxes wouldn't butt together
Owain
I don't know of any that are flush sided, but if you have only a small overhang, then how about just an open grommet on each box, butted up together, to space them a little?
When I was researching sockets for my garage, I found only MK produced flush fitting sockets and back boxes certainly for the most commonly available.
Richard
Yes that has been true for many years, MK used to do more than double sockets though with the back boxes to match, and there was of course just the one connection, and each had its own switch. It was a very long time ago though, so whether they still do them I have no idea. Brian
I personally would not give houseroom to socket mounted USB PSU sockets for two reasons.1 most create interference as they are el cheapo Chinese modules and 2 everyone is going USBC on power connectors, which means adaptor cables. Brian
But even USB-C are nearly all only USB-C at the 'client' end., they're still the same old USB-A at the power end.
And mains sockets with USB-C at the power end are available.
Owain
All metal clad I've seen have the face plates wrapped round the back box. Can't see any other way of doing it. I used conduit couplers and bushes to link them together in the workshop. An extra inch or so apart being neither here nor there.
I would have said that, but the MK K2946ALM do *look* flush to the sides in most photos
And the back boxes appear to have a lip to allow that.
Owain
Buy a couple from SF/TS and if they don't suit they're easy to return?
£15 each is hardly extortion if you want a particular feature ...
And have long been. I rescued a 30-odd of their forebears (but with brass finishing to the sockets) from a skip at work when there was major refurbishment in the 90's. Fitted the last of them for a neighbour only a year or 2 back.
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