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Originally Posted by Lancs Lad
I wonder who originally wired the plug pictured in post #140?[
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I've always wired plugs with equal-lengths to the terminals.
So if the cord-grip fails the resultant tension is then equally-distributed between the 2 or 3 conductors/terminals - reducing the ongoing risk of any conductor being partially-pulled from its terminal and causing continuity-failure (which is distinctly annoying when you have an uptime contract to comply with) or any sort of arc/meltdown.
Having had a few thousand bits of kit annually-inspected for PAT-compliance reasons over a couple of decades, I honestly don't recall cord-grip-failure being a reporting issue!