Electrical safety is a common topic this week. I personally do not trust cheap chinese hardware for anything above 5A ( 1000W at 220V ), that’s my completely arbitrary threshold.
Yes maybe. But @namadori made a good point about perhaps not wanting high current devices running through a plug made in China for $1. If it was for a lamp then ok.
Hmmm I"m not sure about these plugin types or the socket replacement types TBH
Before considering installing LightwaveRF power sockets you need to understand that despite being specified for 13 amps the specification requires the load to be resistive. This means if you are controlling a device with a motor i.e Hoover you may have a problem. The relay in these devices is really designed for controlling lighting as most other loads will have some sort of capacitive or inductive component. When inductance or capacitance is present in the load the 13 amp rating needs to be severely de-rated to the point that the switch is unusable for most non resistive medium power applications.
Hmm given washers/dryer have a motor that isn’t a resistive load the 13A rating should be de-rated significantly. I imagine this is true of the plug-in type energy monitors.
More and more I’m thinking these types of thing are really just for lighting and other low-power devices.