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emeritus · 25th Aug 2019, 11:40 pm

According to my trusty copy of Odhams "Radio Television and Electrical Repairs", 1956 edition, the contemporary wiring regulations required individual 5A and 15A sockets to be wired to " ..a separate fuseway on a central fuseboard.". The only exception was that up to three 5A sockets could be daisy-chained to a single fuseway with a 15A fuse if 15A-rated cable were used throughout. There would be little demand for a 5A double socket that would need to be wired using 15A cable: a single socket plus a double or triple "Grelco" adaptor would be the economical solution.

AFAIK you could connect as many 2A sockets as you liked to a lighting circuit, but I have never seen a double 2A socket, other than in a photo once posted on this forum of a plate the size of a double socket, bearing one 13A socket and two 2A sockets connected to it via a fuse.

25th Aug 2019, 11:40 pm	#3
emeritus Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK. Posts: 5,339	Re: 5A or 10A round pin mains sockets According to my trusty copy of Odhams "Radio Television and Electrical Repairs", 1956 edition, the contemporary wiring regulations required individual 5A and 15A sockets to be wired to " ..a separate fuseway on a central fuseboard.". The only exception was that up to three 5A sockets could be daisy-chained to a single fuseway with a 15A fuse if 15A-rated cable were used throughout. There would be little demand for a 5A double socket that would need to be wired using 15A cable: a single socket plus a double or triple "Grelco" adaptor would be the economical solution. AFAIK you could connect as many 2A sockets as you liked to a lighting circuit, but I have never seen a double 2A socket, other than in a photo once posted on this forum of a plate the size of a double socket, bearing one 13A socket and two 2A sockets connected to it via a fuse.