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Originally Posted by usradcoll1
That's where I think your Bayonet lampholder is superior to the E/S.
As I understand, there is no contact to the mains until the lamp is installed.
The last 25 or 30 years, all the lamps and many other appliances sold in the US are equipped with polarized plugs, the neutral blade wider.
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The vast majority of the bayonet-holders I've come across have no way to automatically disconnect the power from the pins when the bulb's removed.
Equally, many table/desk/bedside-lamps sold this century, irrespective of whether they have bayonet or Edison-screw holders, come as standard fitted with a 2-pin unpolarised "Europlug"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug
which is converted to the UK 13-amp BS plug by a clip-on adapter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_136...gs_(BS_1363-5)
again unpolarised.
Despite which, I've never heard of a light-bulb-socket-related death.