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[–] [email protected] 105 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (14 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What makes it better over a type e? Personally i prefer type e, i dont trust the springs of type f :')

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You can rotate F 180 degrees and plug it in.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You can plug it in upside down?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago

The last one is a typo.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Type K looks the happiest.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

The plug design from my country looks elegant and rational, all the rest are koo-koo-krazy-town.

-- everyone

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Why would they invented a plugs that's not grounded? (Type A and C)

I fucking hate it because my country's default plugs is type C. Caused me so much trouble in damaged electronics, shocked, and the effort to make a grounded line for each individual electronics myself.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (5 children)

the non grounded plugs are usually only used on double isolated devices, like your phone charger.

double isolated basically means all the outputs are only referenced to each other and not to ground, so you won't get a shock by touching a usb plug, where you absolutely would if you touched live wire, where the reference is earth

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Type c is commonly used in my country for small appliances as it can be used with type E and F plugs which are used everywhere

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Remember, all this stuff started over a century ago. The main application was electric incandescent lights, which are fine to run with only two wires.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Finland uses C and F, where F is for grounded and C is for laptop chargers and such that don't need grounding.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Tom's got every right to be proud for the British plug. It's super over engineered and a love it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People in the continental Europe: "Fine. We concede the British plug is a Truly Worthy Adversary to the one true plug, Schuko (Type F)."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can I point out the UK BS1363 (type G) plug is the only one you can use to open a bottle of beer.

I'm not sure what that says about the UK.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

German here. I'm absolutely positive I could open a beer with any of those plugs. And half of the sockets.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A fair point, but ours is practically a bottle opener. A lot easier after a few previous bottles.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

The Chad Type-G.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not the kind of plug I was hoping for

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It’s pretty much the same thing for butt plugs and drug dealers

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

What we really need is a USB-C-style reversible plug with data and variable voltage where neutral and phase never reverse and earth is always there.

Lacking that, I vote for Type N because it's small, polarised, and the pins are halfway-insulated. I don't like that the frame is symmetrical, so in the dark, the only way to tell which way to plug in is to feel the pins and the holes, same as USB-A. I reject all that hurt to step on.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

But why male models?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Type B seen some shit, and it is probably Type-I's fault. Regardless, I want whatever life strategy Type-K's figured out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I wish the entire world would use type G. It's the objectively superior socket for so many reasons. I hate type B so much

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Schuko (type F) is better than the UK plug. UK plug is huge, and schuko has same safety features, except the fuse, which is not needed if your houses would be build better.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Local fusing provides notable advantages, even without ring finals. In particular, one failed appliance doesn't necessarily take out the whole circuit, and lower draw appliances can be more closely fused (e.g. 3A) reducing available fault energy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (10 children)

It's not worth the trade off of the giant plug in my opinion. And local fusing doesn't really protect the user directly, it protects the wires. Modern codes in Europe put the equivalent of GFCIs on all circuits which can actually save lives.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

It's absolutely overkill for many applications, with its integrated fuse, and that's why I love it. It is indeed objectively best.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

G is the best, we have a working ground pin and make a good flail

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why are there so many that lay flat with prongs up????

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because when it's plugged in (as it usually is) it lays closer to the wall and needs less clearance.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

oh that? that is so you can learn a lesson

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Schuko Type C/F (compatible with E) is the best, hands down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

If you view them as a sequence of faces, it’s a decent representation of robotripping

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