Talk:Domestic AC power plugs & sockets/Hong Kong

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Hong Kong SAR has the same plugs as Britain, but for larger appliances also still uses the round pinned 'Old British' plugs that the article attributes to India. Sockets for these plugs can be found in kitchens. I don't know how much of this is worth mentioning and where.

That is interesting. The 'Old British' (5 amp?) round pin plugs can still be found for lighting circuits in hotels and in some homes. If the ones in Hong Kong kitchens are also reduced current, then it might be worth mentioning as a possible parallel to the UK restrictions on sockets in wet areas. Go ahead and put the facts that you know in the article, somebody else might add the reasons later. Bobblewik  (talk) 17:22, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

its usually the 5A plugs that we use here in the uk for switched lamp installs the 2A plugs aren't really supposed to be used in domestic installs because you can't get shuttered sockets in them putting a 13A socket on a lighting circuit while i can't find anything explicitly forbidding it and have done it in my own house is generally frowned opon because of the potential for abuse Plugwash