OT: Where is the Australian regs/code for users rewiring mains power plugs??

(Probably for Tony)

I've got here an Australian HPM power plug. Looks like the following link.

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'm somewhat amazed to find on the internet almost _zero_ consumer instructions how to wire it up with respect to strain relief of the wires.

The HPM design seems to have included a method to clamp the sheath (screw up thing at the rear top that radially bites into the plastic) and three plastic hooks (to wind the individual wires about to reduce movement near the screw terminals).

But as I say, no consumer instructions how joe public should attempts to assemble it correctly - so one could just ignore the strain relief and have flying earth wires contacting everything else just before it breaks, or the user does :-(

Reply to
Adrian C
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I thought in Aus that Joe Public wasn't allowed to touch anything electrical, so the secrets of plug-wiring are probably handed down from father to son in the electrician's guild.

Owain

Reply to
Owain

Yes, you wrap the cores round the hooks, like older UK lampholders and the gland at the top may or may not provide some grip when tightened.

Of course here, as in the UK, every new appliance comes with a moulded on plug. I just had to fit a couple, on my iron and clock radio brought from UK.

Reply to
Tony Bryer

Hence sticking plaster used to repair a plug and resulting dead baby.

Reply to
js.b1

I'm not sure whether that applies to appliance wiring - as opposed to fixed installations. You can buy loose plugs for DIY wiring in the shops in Oz - at least you could when I was last there in 2002 - and I have one in front of me to prove it, as I write!

The one I have has strain-relief hooks built into the bottom plate which carries the pins - such that you can see the ends of the cable loops through slots in the bottom when fully assembled.

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Roger Mills

Yup, I noticed the function of those slots as well. They are visible in the picture posted, they are the slot holes above each pin - which obviously makes it easy for a quick inspection.

Ah well, probably the use of moulded plugs over there are more prevalent than here. Just interested as I've just wired such a plug for a relative flying over there with her now converted hairdryer (don't ask), and just done the C&G 2377 PAT course thing for testing over here - and getting near zilch interest from propective employers here on having that (another story) so wondering what the rest of the world does ...

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Adrian C

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Be fun to watch an Aussie attempting to wire one of our plugs up with no instruction, especially if he hadn't seen one before.

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Mike Tomlinson

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