New electrical appliance with wrongly colour-coded flex

Lobster · 2010-09-11T15:23:02+00:00

A few months ago SWMBO bought a veg steamer from Sainsbury's (FWIE, (or ) and today (for reasons not relevant) I needed to put a new plug on it. I was intrigued to note (well, I don't get out much) that the earth wire in the flex was solid, dark green in colour rather than the usually green/yellow combo that you'd expect. Appliance has the usual CE mark, but no country of origin that I can see)Have to say it hasn't caused me any lost sleep (yet), but out of interest, are Sainsbury's being naughty flogging appliances without the correctly coloured flex?

Sep 11, 2010 21 Replies

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JTM 15 years ago

When the lights change to amber how long before the red? It's not apparently a constant, and can vary from one junction to another, while the 5 second countdown means that red will appear in 5 secs. . . 4 secs. . .3 secs

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dennis 15 years ago

Well yes, its normally set to allow you to stop from the speed limit with ease.

Ahh yes, "I have three seconds left I had better give it some wellie".

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