[OZAPRS] Upside down power supplies

[Ray Wells]

Damien Gardner Jnr (Home) wrote:

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>From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
>Behalf Of Terry Neumann
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>>I'm still immensely annoyed that the extremely useful Clipsal 463 
>>piggyback plug was banned from purchase by the common people in 
>>Australia some years ago.  They are readily available in New Zealand 
>>(branded Made in Australia), but these days they are apparently only 
>>available to the theatre industry over here.   Apparently the reason
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>>the ban was that some turkey somewhere once bought two of them and made
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>>an extension cord - innovative because you can use either end at the 
>>wall outlet - pity about the exposed pins at the other end though ....
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>>As someone once observed: It's hard to make things foolproof because 
>>fools are so ingenious!
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>I remember when that happened - was '91 or so..  Having met a few
>double-ended 'faggot-plugs' ratting around backstage back in the day,
>I'm kinda against general plebs getting hold of them myself..  But it
>would seem that the ban has been lifted (or at least relaxed, and
>tradies can now buy them?), as I bought a couple about a month ago from
>Turks :)
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>Cheers,
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>Damien
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We once had an Installation Inspector get sat on his bum when he went to 
test a new installation. The switchboard was alive thanks to a 
double-plugged lead run from the house next door being plugged into a 
power point in the new house. A prosecution was launched which succeeded.

Ray vk2tv
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