Industrial Extension Leads 15A (10A Plug & Socket) x 30m (98')

The description of this lead is eight words long. It reads: 15A Rated with a standard plug. 30m Long. That is the whole page. The word standard is carrying more weight in that sentence than any other word on the listing, and what it is doing there needs saying plainly: it sits as an adjective before the word plug. Approval, certification, compliance marking, a published standard: the page cites none of the four.

Fifteen amps of cable, ten amps of ends

The product name reads Industrial Extension Leads 15A (10A Plug & Socket) x 30m. The description keeps the 15A and the 30m and drops everything else. A socket is never mentioned at all, and the ten-amp figure sits above in the title and across both store summaries while appearing in nothing written beneath them. Which account describes what arrives is settled by the product name, and by nothing you can read beneath it. The two figures are not interchangeable, and no line on this listing says which of them governs the lead as a whole.

Everything a lead is chosen by

There is no cable specification here of any kind: no conductor size, no core count, no copper, no PVC, no sheath and no flex rating. There is no colour, no ingress rating, nothing about outdoor or wet use, no reel or drum, no weight and no warranty. Industrial belongs to the title and to the store's summaries; those eight words do not use it. We have supplied nothing to fill any of those gaps, and nothing extra should be read into the two figures that do exist.

Key features

• Thirty metres of reach: the one figure here that the description, the title and both store summaries all agree on.
• Fifteen amps claimed for the lead: the description's only rating, given as 15A Rated.
• An ordinary plug: described as standard and in no other way — no pin count, no shape, no rating attached to it in the description.
• A socket on the far end: promised up in the title and by the store's summaries, never mentioned below.
• Two facts, and no third: a rating and a length are the whole of what this description states.

Specifications

• Length as described: 30m
• Stated rating: 15A
• Plug, as described: standard, with no further detail
• Plug and socket, per the name: 10A

What is absent, and it is most of it

• No approval, no certification, no compliance statement, no marking claim — the listing carries none of these. Its one approval-shaped word, standard, is describing a plug.
• No cable specification at all: no conductor area, no cores, no insulation, no sheath material.
• Nothing at all about running the lead out or leaving it coiled on the reel it has not got.
• No ingress rating and nothing about outdoor or wet use, though the store's summary opens by putting the lead on a site.
• No colour, though the store summary calls it high-vis.
• Weight is not given. Neither is a reel, a warranty, or where the lead was made.
• Neither the fifteen amps nor the thirty metres is hedged by anything — no margin, no approximation, no rounding note — and we have hedged neither.
• An imperial length rides above the description and appears in no line of it. That figure has been neither restated nor recomputed here.

Thirty metres and fifteen amps is genuinely all this description will tell you, and on a mains lead the things it leaves out are the things worth checking yourself. Read the moulding on the plug and the printing along the sheath before you use it, because a lead carries its own rating and its own approval marking there — and this page carries neither.