Jump to content

Never seen this wall socket before, anyone know?

wpirobotbuilder
By wpirobotbuilder
in General Discussion
 Share
Posted

I recently moved to an apartment in New Hampshire and I would like to use my Kill-A-Watt meter measure the power consumption of the air conditioner the apartment comes with. However, I ran into a problem:

 

post-653-0-68573800-1372552764_thumb.jpg

 

I haven't seen this wall socket before. I assume it's a heavy-duty socket, but the only heavy-duty socket I've seen is the 5-20R which accepts the North American standard.

 

My question is, is there an adapter for this socket to a standard NA socket?

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

I recently moved to an apartment in New Hampshire and I would like to use my Kill-A-Watt meter measure the power consumption of the air conditioner the apartment comes with. However, I ran into a problem:

 

attachicon.gifIMG_1166.JPG

 

I haven't seen this wall socket before. I assume it's a heavy-duty socket, but the only heavy-duty socket I've seen is the 5-20R which accepts the North American standard.

 

My question is, is there an adapter for this socket to a standard NA socket?

shouldn't that plug there still go in I'm not from America and have no idea how your plugs work but, that looks like the right shape to fit that plug.

My Current Rig: CPU: i7 4790k @ 4.8Ghz CPU Cooler: H100i MOBO: Gigabyte Z97X SOC GPU: XFX Radeon HD 7950 Tahiti pro (Died 6/07/2014 RIP) & PowerColour HD7950  GPU Cooler: NZXT G10 W/ Corsair H55 HDD&SSD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB + Corsair GS 128GB + Samsung 840 EVO 250GB PSU: Corsair RM 750 Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2.  


 

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

It's for high current items like air conditions in the USA.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

shouldn't that plug there still go in I'm not from America and have no idea how your plugs work but, that looks like the right shape to fit that plug.

It won't fit.

 

Looked at it wrong. It'll fit.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

It won't fit.

 

Looked at it wrong. It'll fit.

I know that plug will fit, it's the one that goes with it. I'm looking for an adapter to the standard North American socket.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

I know that plug will fit, it's the one that goes with it. I'm looking for an adapter to the standard North American socket.

why do you need an adapter to the regular socket that plug will fit, won't it so why would you need an adapter?

My Current Rig: CPU: i7 4790k @ 4.8Ghz CPU Cooler: H100i MOBO: Gigabyte Z97X SOC GPU: XFX Radeon HD 7950 Tahiti pro (Died 6/07/2014 RIP) & PowerColour HD7950  GPU Cooler: NZXT G10 W/ Corsair H55 HDD&SSD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB + Corsair GS 128GB + Samsung 840 EVO 250GB PSU: Corsair RM 750 Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2.  


 

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

I know that plug will fit, it's the one that goes with it. I'm looking for an adapter to the standard North American socket.

 

How would that work? If you got an adapter, and put your meter on it, wouldn't you not be able to plug the air conditioner into the kill-a-watt meter?

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

How would that work? If you got an adapter, and put your meter on it, wouldn't you not be able to plug the air conditioner into the kill-a-watt meter?

I would also need an adapter back to the regular socket, but it's unlikely that the adapter back exists.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

Never mind, I found the specs for the AC. It's 13A at 240V for a total of 3.12 kW. I think I'm going to keep the AC on a lot less now.

 

This can be closed.

 

 

Why don't you just read the label on the AC unit.  It will tell you how much energy it draws.

 

Got it.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

I recently moved to an apartment in New Hampshire and I would like to use my Kill-A-Watt meter measure the power consumption of the air conditioner the apartment comes with. However, I ran into a problem:

 

attachicon.gifIMG_1166.JPG

 

I haven't seen this wall socket before. I assume it's a heavy-duty socket, but the only heavy-duty socket I've seen is the 5-20R which accepts the North American standard.

 

My question is, is there an adapter for this socket to a standard NA socket?

those plugs usually mean 220volts only adapt to your kill a watt if it handles 220volts ... i have one of those for my air conditioning 

(1) high frame rate (2) ultra graphics settings (3) cheap...>> choose only two<<...

 

if it's never been done then i'm probably tryna do it. (((((((Bass so low it HERTZ)))))))

Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

Never mind, I found the specs for the AC. It's 13A at 240V for a total of 3.12 kW. I think I'm going to keep the AC on a lot less now.

 

This can be closed.

 

 

 

Got it.

or now saw this ... well glad you found out what you were looking for 

(1) high frame rate (2) ultra graphics settings (3) cheap...>> choose only two<<...

 

if it's never been done then i'm probably tryna do it. (((((((Bass so low it HERTZ)))))))

Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing General Discussion

×