European sockets - legality and insurance etc?

[roger06]

PLEASE - this is NOT about mains products performance !

I see Russ Andrews are now selling Euro mains sockets. Is someone able to tell me if their would be any legal or house insurance implications of fitting a couple and changing amp and CD player etc over to European plugs?

(we'll save the debate about sound quality for another day !

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Thanks

 

[Andrew Everard]

Umm just a wild stab in the dark, but perhaps the company is selling them for use in mainland Europe?

 

[roger06]

Now you're just being silly...

 

[Andrew Everard]

Not at all: would see no reason for using them in this country, quite apart from the fact they wouldn't comply with safety regs, and the company does sell products outside the UK, so it's the only logical explanation.

 

[roger06]

Well it's just I know people who've fitted them (in the UK). So the fact a UK company sells them just makes me wonder whether something had changed.

 

[Sizzers]

Shaver sockets maybe? lol

 

[Andrew Everard]

Well it's just I know people who've fitted them (in the UK).

I can see no reason to do that.

 

[roger06]

Fuse-less plugs basically. I rewired mine without fuses and it made a huge difference. But I couldn't sleep at night thinking if the house burnt down and the insurers didn't cough up and my family would be homeless and our main asset gone for the sake of good hi fi!

 

[Andrew Everard]

Fuse-less plugs basically. I rewired mine without fuses and it made a huge difference.

At which point the thread ends, on safety grounds.