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Help me ID this outlet...

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I've got a strange looking outlet on my sun porch that powers an old electric space heater. My house was built in 1960 and the heater is likely original to the house.

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Does homedepot sell an adapter of some sort for this kind of outlet? Everyone works fine now except I can't plug anything else into this particular outlet.

Thanks!
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Thanks! Is there an adapter that I can get from say Home Depot that would allow me to plugin regular things? I mainly want to plugin one of those "kill a watt meters" to see how much power my space heater is using.
Ok thanks all.

Follow up question. Since I cant use my Kill a watt meter, is there a way to tell how many watts the heater uses by looking at the numbers on the unit (assuming max heat setting)? see below

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ok and what is the 3050 number?
yea i pay aboutt 17 cents per kw so this thing would cost about 60 cents per hour to run on high. sheesh.
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