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Originally Posted by Herald1360
A bodge from work that I remember in the transmitter lab at Racal Comms was using a twin 13A socket, two plugs and two mains leads paralleled up at the equipment inlet to run a 1kW output solid state HF transmitter that needed 6kW of mains in at full output.
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I seem to remember that most, if not all, twin 13A sockets are not rated to supply 13A from both sockets at the same time. Something tells me that a lot of them are 13A _total_.
As for different floors being on different phases there is a possibly apocryphal story of a student who needed 3 phase mains to run a vintage computer. He discovered that each floors of his hall of residence was connected to a different phase, so he ran extension leads out of the window to the rooms above and below.