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Comment by quickthrowman

That’s twice as much power as a US 120V 15A receptacle

.8*120*15 = 1440w vs 230*13 = 2990w

You can only use 80% of a load on a breaker in the US, AFAIK UK receptacles are fused which allows using 100% of the listed device ampacity instead of 80%. I could be wrong about that last part though.

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