Noticed this plug on my wall from when I moved into this house, and I just started wondering again about what it’s actually for. This is in the UK, if that helps. It’s on a big bulky box hanging on the wall below my desk next to two regular plug sockets.
Edit: best suggestion I’ve seen here is that it could be a fuse box for an alarm system. Makes sense since this house did have several security systems before I moved in. Also, for added context, this is in a bedroom and the wire coming out of it goes straight into the wall.
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I showed chatgpt the picture and it was close to what others on here said.
“The image shows a fused spur or a fused connection unit (FCU). This type of electrical outlet is used to protect appliances that are permanently connected to the electrical supply without a standard plug, such as heaters, ovens, or lighting circuits.”
Then I asked what country this is most likely to have this in a home
“The fused spur or fused connection unit (FCU) in the image is most commonly found in homes in the United Kingdom and Ireland. This type of electrical fitting is a standard feature in these countries, where it is used for appliances that need to be hardwired into the electrical system, such as water heaters, ovens, or extractors. It may also be found in other countries that follow British electrical standards, but the UK and Ireland are the most likely.”
I thought that was interesting and wanted to share.
Wait, the UK wires their ovens and stoves directly into the wall without a plug?
Generally yeah, it’s not that uncommon in some builds of the US for ovens and dishwashers to be hard wired.
Same in Croatia for ovens. Usually 3 phase.
That’s the secret internet off switch, DON’T TOUCH IT JEN!
Actually OP is named Adam Sky.
Can’t be. The internet’s wireless.
Sits in big ben, to get the best reception
toggles switch
THE INTERNET!
screaming and chaos
(the elders of the internet ain’t got shit on me 😎)
https://youtu.be/S8O1sruSO2U?si=GQ3OLDdrTUoB_bYl
Fuse box for a alarm system it looks like. Shows up at 28 seconds
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Super Meat Boy lookin mfer
Ah, that’s a European headphone outlet. It’s for listening to authentic house music.
Wouldn’t authentic house music be from Chicago and European be derivative?
Fuck you! upvotes
Get that Reddit canned response out of here. You can come up with a better reaction than the AIs can, give it a shot sometime.
I am deeply sorry for expressing the inner response I had upon reading these holy texts. I long to better myself and only wish that some day I might cross unto the plane of higher understanding only true masters of eloquency like you can achieve, so that I might not flood the sacred halls of understanding and wisdom with my measly attempts at conveying a feeling that overcame me. One can just dream of reaching such a form of enlightened humanity to not dirty this truly intellectual exchange of minds with such a lowly response. My regrets at such blasphemy in the face of these holiest forms of pursuit for true knowledge is unbearable. My only hope is that I have not hindered the epiphanies surely to blossom out of the riddle of the mysterious white box on the wall. Were it not for enlightened minds like yours, the world would surely crumble and collapse into nothingness and we all are deeply thankful for your selfless and brave acts against the evils of this world.
I will now retreat to silence in order to chastise myself, so that I might come out of this shameful exhibition of my intellectual shortcomings as a better person.
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Could’ve just said that this was a low effort comment, I would’ve agreed, your holier than thou bullshit can stay at home. It costs you nothing to be kind.
Did you just get so mad you wrote an OG copypasta? Lmao.
You can come up with a better reaction than the AIs can, give it a shot sometime.
As expressly asked for by you, you ding dong.
Haha you’re stupid, do better
*Does better
Haha you actually tried
Troll
Well duh, you got baited my dude.
Gotta give props for effort then. And be glad I didn’t just drop a TL;DR, I actually read your word vomit.
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KnightsBridge 13A White Connection Unit 3 Amp Fused & Flex Outlet Electric Wall Plate
Woah spot on! Today was the day for your highly specific knowledge to shine! Thanks!
A flex outlet is a type of electrical socket that allows you to wire high-powered appliances straight into your walls. Boilers, water heaters, and other electrical unit that require a continuous power source, would be wired through a flex outlet. Flex outlets are often used in a situation where a plug socket would be difficult to access. Or with appliances that do not come with a 13A plug socket as standard.
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Still not sure I really get why this exists, but okay.
Thanks Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart.
I read the mod log, and I notice that many communities ban you, only citing your screen name as the only reason.
Stay classy, Lemmy!
There’s a bit more to the story than just that, but I’ll share a saying my grandmother taught me.
Fuck them if they can’t take a joke.
I like your grandmother.
Sounds like this could be Lemmy’s r/rimjobsteve.
I liked that sub.
Not a plug, but a fuse box - that small panel would open up/pull out to let you replace the fuse. Couldn’t tell you what it’s for without more info
Anything is a plug if you’re brave enough to stick your penis in the hole!
Pluggin’
Melba toast
PlayStation memory card?
My metal gear solid save files!
Awww. It looks happy.
I’d say it looks conFUSED
This is a fuse box, with a flathead you should be able to open it and/or pull a small tray with the fuse itself inside. You Brits do your electrical wiring with ring-shaped circuits and put a fuse in every outlet.
This kind of outlet is intended for things you don’t unplug and a socket doesn’t make sense, usually boilers, ovens, stoves, ACs, alarm systems as already commented…
Its purpose is pure pareidolia. I see a kid with fetal alcohol syndrome.
Sure you ain’t catching a reflection in the screen?
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I’d love to meet a popcorn princess. I’m imagining princess peach, lifting up her skirt to her knees, and then a mountain of popcorn falls out.
Username relevant. Most people would imagine a yellowish-white popcorn shaped dress and poofie shoulders, maybe her hair is shaped like a popped kernel. Not you, you can’t be that whimsical, she has to be a popcorn smuggling heiress with undoubtedly greasy thighs.
Fuse box for one line. Fuses weren’t put in as standard when electricity was introduced. Many old houses just had live wires coming in with no breaker like today. For expensive electrical items added when there was no fuse, an electrician with install it with a dedicated fuse. If the electrical system has been updated where it enters the house, it may no longer be needed. However, if it is on a different circuit, it may be. Old fuse boxes were a bunch of replaceable physical fuses. Nowadays they are breaker switches for easy resetting and less waste.
Anyway, if whatever is connected to this gets a power surge, the fuse could trip and you would need to replace it. However it is not a plug, to add a different device or appliance, but just a safety pass through for the wire coming out the other end.
Early electrical grids were fucking wild lol. In my city, there were 3 different grids, with different voltages competing for customers (one was DC!) In the early days before it was standardized.
This panel has a distinctly UK look about it, and I was already thinking that before I read your confirmation. I think only the UK and Ireland use things that look even remotely like this. The rounded appearance also puts it post-war, pre-1980-something because everything changed to be more flat around that time.
As for its purpose, would a bathroom be at the other side of that wall, by any chance? Or was it at some point in the house’s history? Heated towel rail is a good bet, for example. You don’t want anything vaguely like an outlet in the bathroom (shaver sockets notwithstanding), so wall panels tend to go in a neighbouring hallway or room.
Note that some bathrooms have the light switch on the outside for similar reasons. Others have a pull cord inside the room, which is less able to cause electrocution.
(If you know of a bathroom with a regular light switch inside it, you’ve found a room that was once something other than a bathroom and whoever remodelled didn’t finish the job properly. Or maybe it’s in a very badly built house.)
