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Originally Posted by Lucien Nunes
I have often wondered whether a superior 'high endurance' plug with some additional clamping arrangement for the fuse, such as a steel spring around the contact clips or even a screw clamping arrangement, might find favour with industrial users.
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I doubt so: the world's industrial users invariably use IEC60309/CEE17 connectors - and these don't mess around with in-plug fuses anyway.
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I'm an industrial user with hundreds of IEC60309 plugs in service, from 16A 2P+E to 63A 3P+N+E, plus hundreds of 13A plugs for things that have to be plugged into general purpose supplies e.g. at other premises where there might not be a 16A socket available. If you pay top dollar for an IEC60309, you get a really well engineered connector. With BS1363, you get a better one but there's no one brand with all of the common weak points engineered out. The resilient ones with good fuse contacts suffer from tilting pins, etc.