I’ll bet that customs thought that they had stumbled across a new way of concealing illegal contraband/substances…
…or a complete nutcase of course.
It’s a PDL940 Black plug. Used in lighting rigs around AU. A good search will find them. If not sure get any electrician will put one on for you.
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Thanks for the info, useful to know. 
Stocked (and manufactured?) by Schneider it seems….
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Thanks for telling me, I find some at AU website. Best regards
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Is it because there is no shutter inside the plug to prevent something being inserted in the plug?
DG…
The plastic sleeve is a safety - anti-shorting cover for if the plug is partially inserted and an object falls in the gap.
Jeez guys, it was a bit of a joke with Richard re the plugs being ‘bunged’ for the AU market….The plastic ‘film’ you see in the pics is merely a piece of packaging wrap, easily removed….
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Why not something good like a Furutech or Oyaide
I have to assume Naim tried those, at least at the reasonable end of the spectrum, as the Schuko Powerline uses Furutech and the US uses Wattgate.
Of course putting a $400 AC connector on an $1100 cable isn’t something a manufacturer would do, so the calculus might be different at the high end of things.
Well the Tapon was deemed good enough to be the ‘official’ AU/NZ plug on the Powerline……though as has been stated this wasn’t a factory termination….
As you can see, looks like a bit of a imposter has turned up sitting in the foam moulding for the UK plug…!
I always understood (perhaps wrongly) that a lot of the benefits of the Powerline were in the UK plug design, which obviously has to work with the inherent requirement of the internal fuse….The Powerline-Lite seems to have a bit of trickle down design from the PL plug….
Of course, overseas markets don’t have the fuse requirement, which many argue provides a purer connection…another debate, no doubt.
To the OP, think I would go the Tapon (PDL940) if you can source some – having a quick look, they do seem more available within AU now, so perhaps the restriction of old has now relaxed. (As I said earlier, never really understood why they were said to be illegal in AU (if indeed that was the case) as piggy-back extension leads have long been readily available at Bunnings etc…! It may be the case it was down to the aspect it was a ‘self’ rewireable plug….and besides, they were and still are supplied in the box with Naim kit, so obviously must meet regs…)
I’ve seen a rewireable AU Furutech on a Naim cable (Powerline) and thought it looked ugly, but that was just a visual opinion…The other inherent advantage of the Tapon, as well as reportedly working well with Naim kit, is that you could potentially ‘stack’ them at the wall outlet – it’s like a manual ‘Hydra’…!!
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I understand what you meant now – you’re referring to the bit of sleeving on the actual L/N pins…?
(My ‘joke’ was referring to the plastic film on the face of the plug, covering the piggy-back inlets)
Yeah, seems to be a requirement on all plugs here now…
Is a pain actually if you have electrical kit with leads (especially Captive) that have older plugs without the plastic sleeves – we had some belongings from my wife’s parents that we wanted to give to charity shops etc and they wouldn’t take anything if the leads didn’t have plugs with the black plastic pins – couldn’t give the stuff away, ridiculous….H&S gone mad – no wonder why there’s so much e-waste.
Older Tapon plugs didn’t have the plastic sleeves on the pins, just full length copper pins…Apparently sounded better I read.
I think there was actually a similar thread on all this a little back, see if I can find it….
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NP - clearly we were both referring to different parts of the photo.
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Another similar thread from a few months back, has some good info from all the usual Antipodes…!
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Does anyone know the 10th anniversary edition ? What’s the difference with the original black color one?
When we evaluated all the top end NZ/AUs mains plugs at the time, the Tapon came out top for SQ, so that’s what Naim went with.
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What I ended up doing is fitting a UK un-switched wall socket that has a Uk mains block attached, for all the other UK power cables. My Hi Fi system was all built in the UK. This way you don’t need to sacrifice the original cables supplied. I don’t know if this helps. Sorry about the dust in the pictures. I must do better at my chores.
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I was actually going to suggest something similar, though with a slight tweak – a UK (or universal) powerboard that has a IEC input, then use a decent quality AU/NZ IEC cable to connect to the wall….
I’m thinking to do something similar if I do get some Powerlines at some point (as I’d probably prefer the UK variant), possibly using something like a Musicworks board….
After living & travel overseas for the last 20yrs+ as well as being originally from the UK, I have a house full of mixed plugs UK/Thai-US/EU and of course AU…I think there’s more UK plugs here then AU!
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Sounds good. I was lucky when we last moved we needed a bit of electrical work done, so I managed to also squeeze in a dedicated 6mm ring main running in parallel to the meter, just designated for the Hifi. This managed to stop all feed back from ceiling fans and an annoying fridge kicking in very close to the hifi. No more humming.
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Cool.
You got a Sparkie to run in a ring main – I thought it was all Radials out here…?
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I mostly set it up myself and get a sparky in to double check/finish and sign off on it. I found that sparky’s can be a bit indifferent to what you are trying to achieve. If you can find a sparky that’s done hospital electrical work it can make a difference, as they may have done some balanced mains work for some of the sensitive equipment and will understand a ring mains set up better. Have a good chat with them over the phone before hand, so they are on the same page before you start paying a couple of hundred dollars just for turning up. Good luck
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