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The standard 13A, BS 1363 plugs come in four colours, Black, white, Red, and Orange. It is not a good idea to go for a more exotic colour, because if the right colour plug is not available, then you will end up with the old Bryant & May type plug. As far as sockets are concerned the only rule is that IPS sockets should be blue and engraved "Medical Equipment Only".
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Better be clear there, Brian. IPS ... Isolated Power Supply?  And ... no blue 13A plug tops, then?
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Geoff,
In answer to your question.
In the end we went for red plug tops for life support kit vents etc.
In answer to Neils quote unfortunately there are vents that dont have battery back up.
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Geoff,
In answer to your question.
In the end we went for red plug tops for life support kit vents etc.
In answer to Neils quote unfortunately there are vents that dont have battery back up.
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... any critical piece of kit that is not already battery-backed gets its own UPS screwed to the back (or the trolley, cart, whatever), set to give a clear (that is, loud) alarm whenever the mains plug is yanked out the wall ...
Hopefully, modern ventilators don't take too much power. That is, a UPS should be available to suit their needs. OK, red plug tops it is then. Anybody else ...?
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What Vents are they, all our vents have batteries and we still have some old ones, cos the old ones work better than the new ones.
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Hey Neil, surely you remember the Cape-Waine? 
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No, was that something that Batman wore??
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We have some Evitas and Catos.
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Cape-Waine Anaesthetic Ventilators - memories!!!
They were built by Cape Engineering in Warwick. Originally as the Waine Ventilator and then Dr Waine, Consultant Anaesthetist (affectionatley known as Curly due to his lack of hair!!??) added an anaesthetic head to it for use in theatre.
They were very reliable machines mainly due to the bicycle chain that ran the internal bellows!!
Interestingly, Cape Engineering were mainly into building parts for tanks and armoured vehicles.
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