16amp to 13amp converter/adapter?

(a 16 Amp to 13 Amp Adapter for £1.25)

(SIP 16/13 amp Socket adaptor £22.40 (RRP £31.00!)

Can't actually answer your question, but the £1.25 looks like a daily/weekly hire charge...

Peter

oh yeah, guess I should have read the website first - I just landed on that page from a google search...

still, anyone else know the difference between the other two? one looks like a bit of cable with a different plug/socket on each end while the other looks like a little box of tricks - maybe there's something else in there?

(a 16 Amp to 13 Amp Adapter for £1.25)

(SIP 16/13 amp Socket adaptor £22.40 (RRP £31.00!)

There is no difference between them, apart from one is for hire & the others are to buy.

sQuick..

Stormlighting 1.25 per week. You hire it. world of power -you own it. Also they have a more rugged unit that is the same as toolsnstuff.

(a 16 Amp to 13 Amp Adapter for £1.25)

(SIP 16/13 amp Socket adaptor £22.40 (RRP £31.00!)

The subtle difference between the first link and the other two links is that Storm Lighting appears to be a stage lighting rental company. The Daily Price: £1.00 and Weekly Price: £1.25 are rental rates, not the price to buy one.

Being in the USA, I have no idea how good or bad the stuff is from the other two suppliers. I will say that the Economy Adapter from World of Power will probably have the receptacles hanging in mid-air by the cord if you plug it directly in to your generator, and that's not good for it. If you have it plugged in to an extension cord and laying flat, that's not a problem. I'll quit here before revealing any more ignorance of UK wiring regs.

Mike

Possibly a stupid question but...

Can I just take a device with a 13amp 3 pin standard household plug, hack the plug off, and wire the cable into a 2 pin 16amp "industrial" plug? Or is the 13amp to 16amp adapter doing something slightly more technical than allowing a square plug to fit into a round whole as it were?

You lose the 13A plug fuse if you do that. In some cases that won't matter, and in others it will. In the UK, 16A industrial socket outlets are allowed to be protected at up to 20A in theory, although it's not uncommon to find them hanging from a 32A outlet without any such protection included. In such a scenario, your appliance cord is now protected by a

32A protective device, which is almost certainly in excess of what the appliance cord can safely handle. If the appliance cord is long or an extension cord is in use, a fault at or near the appliance end might well not draw enough current due to the cable resistance to trip the 32A device within the time required to avoid the cable failing in an unsafe way (e.g. smoking and setting fire to something nearby).

so the adapter would solve that problem...?

Yes, as it retains a 13A fuse in the circuit (if I'm imagining the right thing).