Can anyone recognise this mains plug/adaptor?

A Boxing Day poser - Can anyone identify the type of mains plug/adaptor fitted to a recently acquired digital photo frame viewer marketed by Kodak ca 2008? Made in two parts with the UK 3-pin adapter sliding into the rear of the plug and locked into position by the serrated knob. Electrical data reads Model MPA- 05015 AC Adaptor I/p : 100-240V 50/60Hz, O/p: +5V DC 1.5A . Question remains is to why go to such a complicated arrangement?

I've got / had something simiar (also photographic eqt?); I think it's so that one can slide in another adaptor when travelling to a country with different sockets..

Obviously, the benefits of that design is that only one electrical unit needs be designed and the slide-in adapter can be swapped out according to which domestic market it's being shipped to.

Another advantage is that it keeps the packaging small.

It is complicated, but presumably needs only the white adaptor to be in different forms for different countries.

That is simpler than making a range of different PSUs, if the labelled unit is that, not just a plug. The label itself suggests it is, by the symbols along the bottom of the label.

The base can take different plugs to accommodate sockets of different national standards. I imagine it is proprietary to Kodak. I have had one or two devices with such an arrangement, which I no longer have. The ones I had made it impossible to remove the plug once attached. They are also rather bulky and can interfere with adjacent plugs in our sockets.

Bill

More than just swapping for different countries. It is designed to fit through a letterbox although some don't quite fit.

You mean so that you can sneakily plug it in, in your neighbour's hall? ..certainly worth thinking about, these days..

edit; missing apostrophe..

Edited By DiogenesII on 26/12/2022 11:03:41

The locking arrangement may have something to do with its Underwriters Laboratory approval.

When I worked at KODAK [years before that], they were notably thorough about such things.

MichaelG.

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https://www.ul.com/

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Edit: __ a 2-pin insert is shown on this one:

https://jp.mercari.com/item/m55236762857

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 26/12/2022 11:25:02

Still doing the same today. I have several similar on various bits of Kit.

This one

Is from a BT Smart Hub. It was done so that (as Bazyle said) the packaging will fit through a UK letterbox.

I have a similar thing somewhere, it came with about 4 variations of plug, including the British standard one, it would work on dual voltage as it was a switched power supply intended for use in many parts of the world.

Hi, I have three of this style of adapter plug, the first one came with a Nook tablet, which I bought in 2013, and which I now use for charging my Walkman mp3 players and a couple of small battery packs, which can be used to re-charge mobile phones when out and about, plus a couple of portable speakers, but not all at the same time of course. The second one I have is for a multi-voltage power supply, which claims to be able to be used worldwide, which I got from Maplin electronics a year or two before they closed their stores.

The third one I have is for an Asus E21OM laptop, which I bought just last July 2022. Only the Nook and the Maplin ones have a locking mechanism, the Asus one just snaps and unsnaps into place.

Regards Nick.