Adding an inline switch?

[333rocky333]

The CE mark is not correct so the product is suspect.

See here:
https://www.gov.uk/ce-marking[/QUOTE]

I read that somewhere and when i checked there seems to be quite a bit of legitimite gear with logos that are not spaced like that

 

[EFLImpudence]

I suppose, strictly speaking, that would mean they are not legitimate.

 

[JohnW2]

Surely the live wire would be the core connected to the Fuse in the plug, as it is flat twin wire it would not be hard to follow.

If it were flat twin, then I agree that would not be hard. However, it looks twisted, not flat, to me, and that would make it significantly more difficult. If I had 'followed' a conductor around all those twists, I think I'd want to get my meter out 'to confirm'!

In most cases I think the live is also the core that terminates at the first bulb, whereas the neutral passes by right to the last bulb, usually 20 bulbs

That may be common, but since there is no compelling reason why it has to be wired that way around, it clearly would not be safe to rely on the fact that it has!

Sometimes there is a sort of ridge moulded along the side of the plastic sheath of one core

There is. Sometimes even a black line. If any such markings are present, the whole think obviously gets much easier.

However, since DP switches seem to be readily available, why bother with any of that 'tracing'?!

Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnW2]

Right I am in bed now, and my laptop has a card reader so I am just uploading the pics to photobucket...

Thanks. Just to be sure, do I take it that the last photo (on its own, in the second post), bearing the label, is of the box that the lights came in, rather than anything to do with the actual lights?

Kind Regards, John

 

[LadyHomeLover]

Right I am in bed now, and my laptop has a card reader so I am just uploading the pics to photobucket...

Thanks. Just to be sure, do I take it that the last photo (on its own, in the second post), bearing the label, is of the box that the lights came in, rather than anything to do with the actual lights?

Kind Regards, John

That label was wrapped around the light cable. I flattened it on the laptop keyboard to photograph it.

Are we concluding that I cannot fit an inline switch on such a cable, then?

 

[JohnW2]

That label was wrapped around the light cable. I flattened it on the laptop keyboard to photograph it.

Ah, right! I assumed that the label had been on the cable, but didn't recognise the laptop as such

Are we concluding that I cannot fit an inline switch on such a cable, then?

Not necessarily. As has been discussed a "double-pole" switch (such as the couple I linked to) would be OK (provided that it had adequate clamps to stop the wires being yanked out), since it would switch both wires (so you wouldn't need to know or work out which was live).

Kind Regards, John

 

[winston1]

[quote="LadyHomeLover";p="3206046" Even the nearest B&Q is 3 miles away by bus.
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Well go there then. They have inline switches as well.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Okey dokey....I've never seen a transparent plug!

You can get coloured ones too:

http://www.inlico.com/products.aspx?c=790&p=1484