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joel jaeggli <joelja@gmail.com> Mon, 03 March 2014 09:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [89attendees] Mystery Power Outlet
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On 3/3/14, 9:50 AM, Ben Campbell wrote:
> My room has one power outlet that I don't recognize. It's the only 
> available outlet near the nightstand, where I generally like to
> plug my phone.  I thought it was a UK style outlet, but my adapter
> does not fit. On close inspection, it appears to have 3 round
> holes. The rectangular pins in my adapter won't fit.  It's
> otherwise the same layout.

it's old british bs546  plug also know as the south african plug

normally it's used here to keep people from plugging random appliances
into a socket, e.g. vacuum cleaners in a datacenter.


> Any idea what this is?
> 
> My euro adapters would fit, except it appears to be gated on the 
> ground pin. (Fortunately, none of the _normal_ UK plugs in my room 
> are gated, so I can use the euro adapters in them.) 
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