BS 1363 plug, using a plastic pin insulated shutter opening device (ISOD) and sleeved Reside pins. A BS 1363 plug has two horizontal, rectangular pins for line and neutral, and earlier mentioned these pins, a bigger, vertical pin for an earth connection. The two line and neutral have current and are defined as Dwell pieces.[eleven] The earth pin

These consist of plugs with insulated sleeves, sockets with blocking shutters, and sockets intended to acknowledge only appropriate plugs inserted in the correct orientation.Three D&S sockets mounted on the panel Produced by Dorman & Smith (making use of patents used for in 1943) the plugs and sockets had been rated at thirteen A and were one of s