AKrenc wrote: Since there is already equipment on the market that requires an E or F type socket (because this type of Schuko plugs was probably meant by my colleague Strumien's awareness - such with a 25A load capacity
Notice such a nuance in your statements. You write "requires
nests 25A "and earlier you quote the hardware manufacturer that he requires
security 25A.
This difference may be the heart of the matter.
Standards for E and F type sockets impose this limit of 16A and the resulting product marking, but they probably refer to continuous current. I suspect that the criteria for the maximum current in these standards and the measurement methodology they refer to are much more broadly defined and there will also be current limit values for periodic overloads, surges, etc. And these will be values greater than 16A.
So that in my opinion it may result from this that the situation (not violating the standards) becomes quite real, that through a normal 16A socket, without overloading it beyond the requirements that it must meet in the standards, you can trigger the 16A protection.
The more so with specific receivers, such as a welder.
And maybe this is why this equipment manufacturer's requirement for protection, not a socket, which must meet its standards and must have the 16A feature anyway. Because the manufacturer of the socket, despite its ambitions and possibilities, cannot write more, because it will violate the limits of the standards.
Unfortunately, I do not have access to these standards for E and F sockets, which is a pity because you asked an interesting topic. Maybe some friend here will have these standards handy somewhere.
Then you would know if your search makes sense.
It would also be interesting to see the gauge of the plug with such equipment. I suspect it is 16A.
