{"id":2813,"date":"2012-11-07T06:40:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T06:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2012-11-07T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T06:40:02","slug":"uae-restrict-2-pin-power-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/2012\/11\/07\/uae-restrict-2-pin-power-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE restrict 2-pin power plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is thanks to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eisnersafety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NewsIn-BriefSeptOct2012.pdf\">Nemko &#8216;News In Brief&#8217; for Sept-Oct 2012<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0As stated in the Nemko Newsletter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8216;UAE has restricted the entry of electrical equipment with 2-pin plug configurations in order to strengthen the implementation of a standardized model for all power plugs marketed in the country. From 2012, the standard UAE\/BS 1363-5 applies for all electrical home and\u00a0office appliances sold in the UAE.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Note, that for class II appliances (no earth is provided and so typically\u00a0no earth terminal provided) the same plug configuration UAE\/BS 1363-5 is required with a dummy plastic or metal pin replacing the earth terminal to maintain the plug compatibility with the socket outlets. \u00a0Also, the\u00a0UAE\/BS 1363-5 model is based on a British Standard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For more details on this subject click on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esma.gov.ae\/en-us\/News\/Pages\/Pinpowerplugs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is thanks to Nemko &#8216;News In Brief&#8217; for Sept-Oct 2012. \u00a0As stated in the Nemko Newsletter: &#8216;UAE has restricted the entry of electrical equipment with 2-pin plug configurations in order to strengthen the implementation of a standardized model<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[707,366,708,407,709,42,710,711,712,713,714,715,716,717,718,719,720],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2-pin-plug","tag-class-ii","tag-earth","tag-electrical-equipment","tag-metal-pin","tag-nemko","tag-pin-plug","tag-pin-power","tag-plug-compatibility","tag-plug-configuration","tag-plugs","tag-power-cord","tag-power-plugs","tag-socket-outlets","tag-sockets","tag-uae","tag-uaebs-1363-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}