Universally Dangerous Socket Outlet - The Holiday Shocker 🔌

Is it worth the risk of an electric shock or fire to avoid taking travel adaptors on holiday? Hotels are installing universal electrical socket outlets (or receptacles if you're tuning in from the USA). These universal sockets look similar to British Standard BS1363 sockets. However, with universal sockets, you can insert almost any plug the world offers.

After the plug on a hair dryer melted, Gordon Routledge put down his Pina Colada and headed off to the local market to discover the problems.

We purchased a Legrand universal socket outlet and a version from Keffy. Neither socket outlet has any instructions of warnings about the potential for electric shock.

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00:00 Dangerous holiday hotel electrics
00:19 A trip to the market to buy a socket
00:50 Locals don't bother with plugs
01:25 Where would we be without electrical standards - Mauritius (and other places)
01:59 The real reason the UK left the EU
02:33 Universal electrical socket outlets
03:00 Electric Shock Risk 1 - Exposed live parts
04:10 Electric Shock Risk 2 - No earth connection
06:10 Fire Risk - Poor connection
06:30 Breaking news from Unilight
06:55 Inside a universal socket outlet - Keffy
10:00 Poor connections
10:50 The Legrand version
11:40 Look away, now Gary's got shorts on!
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