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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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Something similar is quite often found attached to portable electric-welders - nicknamed a "murder-lead".
In such applications it's also not unusual to find the 'live' pins and fuses have been replaced by neutral-pins scavenged from other plugs, as a way to avoid pesky fuse-blowing-when-your-welding-rod-sticks-to-the-workpiece.