Storing cables

26 Nov 2011

...
   this is common
practice in Europe for tea kettles?  Yes.  Well, actually the conenctor on an
electric kettle over here is
 the 'hot condtion' one with a notch on the socket and ridge insdie
 the plug.  Originally, the 'normal' one, as used on computers, was
 rated at 6A, the 'hot condtion' one at 10A.  I could never work out
 why, the contacts were identical. Now it appears all are rated at
 10A. 
I would speculate that the "hot condition" name for it is relevant,
that the difference is not the contacts but the surrounding plastic,
with the hot condition version rated for substantially higher
temperatures.  The notch and its mating ridge are, of course, to stop
you from mistakenly using a low-temperature cord in something that
presumably runs hotter than the low-temperature ones are rated for.  Of
course, a cable with the notch can be used in a device with no ridge,
but that's OK; a high-temperature cable in a low-temperature device is
the safe kind of mismatch.

Do you find that plausible?

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