{"id":724,"date":"2011-03-02T08:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T08:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/2011\/03\/02\/safety-socket-finished\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T22:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:31:57","slug":"safety-socket-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/2011\/03\/02\/safety-socket-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Socket finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gareth_edwards\/5491359692\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" title=\"Safety Socket\" src=\"http:\/\/basupport.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5491359692_65066fcc8f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Safety Socket - Completed\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night we completed a vital new piece of equipment, the safety socket.<\/p>\n<p>The safety socket is a design by Kevin O&#8217;Connor of <a title=\"London Power\" href=\"http:\/\/www.londonpower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Power <\/a> that has been published in his book <a title=\"Tonnes of Tone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.londonpower.com\/catalog\/product_info.php?cPath=3&amp;products_id=11\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Tonnes Of Tone&#8221;<\/a>. It uses domestic light bulbs as a power soak to protect equipment-under-test in the event of a potentially catastrophic failure. It&#8217;s a simple design that can save hundreds of pounds worth of gear from destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s completed, it becomes part of the growing library of test equipment available to builders and experimenters in the Edinburgh Hacklab.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some images showing the construction process:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gareth_edwards\/5491360160\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Laying out the Safety Socket\" src=\"http:\/\/basupport.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5491360160_6dee070803.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gareth_edwards\/5490766281\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Before wiring\" src=\"http:\/\/basupport.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5490766281_9085a1b02b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gareth_edwards\/5491360084\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Wiring complete\" src=\"http:\/\/basupport.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5491360084_7818505113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we completed a vital new piece of equipment, the safety socket. The safety socket is a design by Kevin O&#8217;Connor of London Power that has been published in his book &#8220;Tonnes Of Tone&#8221;. It uses domestic light bulbs as a power soak to protect equipment-under-test in the event of a potentially catastrophic failure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,5,6],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronics","tag-mains","tag-safety-socket","tag-test-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basupport.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}