Can a low-power air conditioner use a five-hole socket

Can a low-power air conditioner use a five-hole socket Five-hole socket and three-hole socket

　　 The five-hole socket we usually talk about refers to the wall socket with a rated power of 10A; the three-hole socket refers to the wall socket with a rated power of 16A.

　　General air conditioners rarely can reach 10A-the working current of a 2-hp air conditioner (cooling power of 1600W) does not exceed 8A, and the instantaneous current does not exceed 10A. For air conditioners with less than 2 HP (1 HP, 1.5 HP, etc.), it seems that a five-hole socket is sufficient.

　　 So some people are whimsical: Can I install the air conditioner socket into a five-hole socket? This can be used as a backup socket when the air conditioner is not installed.

　　 But in fact, this approach is not feasible.

　　 Although it looks from the outside, the five-hole socket contains one three-hole and one two-hole. However, the size of the three-hole socket and the three-hole socket are different. In other words, the plug of the air conditioner is relatively large and cannot be inserted into the five-hole socket.

Reasons for using big pins

　　The original designer, in order to prevent users from using three-hole sockets and five-hole sockets by mistake, causing the socket to overload. Therefore, the high-power electrical appliances that need to use three-hole sockets are uniformly designed with larger pins.

　　 But the air conditioner is more special, which includes both higher power products and lower power products. Before buying an air conditioner, it is estimated that few people know how much power they want to buy. Should the wall socket for the air conditioner be a large socket or a small socket?

　　 So, just unify the plugs of the air conditioner-all large plugs can be used to avoid this trouble.