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Old 7th Feb 2012, 1:56 pm   #72
kalee20
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Default Re: Another unusual plug and some other questions

I've never seen a BC plug with the ability to include an earth connection. Perhaps there was a lead emerging from the side, with a croc clip for clipping to an earthed metal object?

But this sounds highly implausible - if the earthed metal object was only tenuously earthed, then a fault in the appliance could make this object live. Also, the distance from the lamp fitting to such an object would be indeterminate anyway, hardly practical for a portable plug-in appliance.

If the appliance needed an earth, I'm sure a much more practical approach would have been a separate earth connection lead from the appliance itself.
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