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Old 17th Feb 2018, 9:00 pm   #13
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Default Re: Lamp adapter query.

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Originally Posted by broadgage View Post
Regarding post #9 and differing tariffs for lighting and for power, It is an urban myth that people plugged electric irons and other loads into lamp sockets in order to save money.
True: "Saving money" on the leccy-bill was never a driver for plugging things into light-sockets; the 1940s/1950s zeitgeist was always more like "there's only one socket in this flat and it's in the living-room and the telly/radio/heater are all plugged into it, so when I want to do the ironing we got an adapter so I can plug the iron into the light socket in the kitchen".

I recall 3-way BC adapters with a pull-cord-switch that controlled the 'straight through' socket [for the lightbulb] so you could leave the thing always powered-on at the wall switch so the kitchen 'accessories' [iron/radio/toaster] had power all the time and the light was controlled by the pull-cord. All this dangled precariously on a bit of rubber/cotton-insulated twisted twin-flex from the ceiling rose.
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