A Bright Flash.

When everyone goes home from here I turn off the heating and use an electic space heater thing. It looks pretty old but it heats the room in no time.

It works well but each time I plug it in or take the plug out a bright blue spark emits from between the plug and the extension 4 plug jack thing that I also use for the PC pheripherals.

I guess it's the heater plug that is faulty because it doesn't happen with other plugs on the same 4 plug extension lead. Does anyone know what's wrong with it or how to fix it? I'm not much good with things like this :unsure:

You might need to just check the wires are secure inside it.

It's Bonfire night. Just make a pile out of desks, chairs and those old files that no-one uses anymore and light it up.

After much debating between the two ideas I decided to toss a coin and open up the plug. Wish me luck :fear:

Thats odd.
Everytime I turn my boiler off, a green flash comes from behind the socket.

T'is a bit scary. :ermm:

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Originally Posted by manker

After much debating between the two ideas I decided to toss a coin and open up the plug. Wish me luck :fear:

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Good luck :D

Bah. It's still doing it, even after carrying out Dan's detailed plan.

Lilmiss, I think green means that copper is burning :unsure:

Maybe you could change the fuse in it too?

You should not have a heater on the same plug as other domestic appliances. It should have its own plug and fuse.


If anything goes wrong with your heater it will heat up the lowest point of resistance between it and the meter. If that is not your fuse, which breaks when it heats up, then the 'lead' wire could 'heat up' to the point of going on fire.:(

I think it may be overheating.

Pour some cold water on it. That'll do the trick.

Boab, it does have it's own plug and fuse. You know those 4 way extension leads that you buy. It is plugged into one of those.

I think that's OK, isn't it? :unsure:

@ Cheese - Now you've done it; expect Jonno to start a thread tomorrow on how water should be banned because of the dangers of people pouring water over electrical goods :dry:

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Originally Posted by manker

Boab, it does have it's own plug and fuse. You know those 4 way extension leads that you buy. It is plugged into one of those.

I think that's OK, isn't it? :unsure:

@ Cheese - Now you've done it; expect Jonno to start a thread tomorrow on how water should be banned because of the dangers of people pouring water over electrical goods :dry:

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No that is not OK Manker, sorry.:( A heater should be plugged directly in to the wall plug. These four way extension plug have a low Kilowatt limit. A heater has a high kilowatt output. I would be lying if I said I knew the limit on an extension. But I am not lying by saying your heater should not be on it.

1. Don't allow the total current used by the appliances plugged into the adapter to add up to more than 13 amps of current altogether - or 3,000 watts of power. So, for example, you could have two 2 amp appliances and one 5 amp in an adaptor.

2. That means you should never run more than one appliance that uses a lot of current, such as a kettle or television or heater or toaster, from one socket.

:no: this is a diasater waiting to happen

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Originally Posted by bigboab

No that is not OK Manker, sorry.:( A heater should be plugged directly in to the wall plug. These four way extension plug have a low Kilowatt limit. A heater has a high kilowatt output. I would be lying if I said I knew the limit on an extension. But I am not lying by saying your heater should not be on it.

1. Don't allow the total current used by the appliances plugged into the adapter to add up to more than 13 amps of current altogether - or 3,000 watts of power. So, for example, you could have two 2 amp appliances and one 5 amp in an adaptor.

2. That means you should never run more than one appliance that uses a lot of current, such as a kettle or television or heater or toaster, from one socket.

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Oh dear, I've got those 4 way ext things all over the place :crying:

Thanks for the heads up, Boab. They should teach this sort of stuff in school - I can find the hypotenuse of a triangle but I might burn t'place down if I want to be warm doing it :rolleyes:

It doesn't spark when I plug it directly into the wall :01:

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Originally Posted by manker

hypotenuse :

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:ohmy:

He's Hypo. Burn him at the stake! :angry:

Isn't that a good thing :huh:

Nice young chap, wasn't he.

Btw, where did that semi colon come from :blink:

Hmmm, so is it workn for mt to have 6 plugs into one 4 plug lead which goes into one socket?

I have my pc, monitor, stereo, tv, and 2 chargers all plugged into one 4 lead :ph34r: