The British plug is the best power plug due to a few reasons.
Shutters that need the earth pin to be inserted in order to open.
Polorised plug that can only put inserted one way.
Custom fuse for the type of cable being used for the item being plugged in.
Ring circuits can be used to save wire in a house.
Insulated live and neutral wires that stop you from touching live power.
Switches on most if not all sockets.
Why the British plug is the best plug
Colton Scott
Oliver Johnson
>Ring circuits can be used to save wire in a house.
This is literally a poorfag measure, not an upside
Fuck off poverty faggot
Juan Smith
There's already a plug thread.
There's no need for a second one.
Sebastian Baker
>Ring circuits can be used to save wire in a house.
Electrician here, that's not why we use ring circuits. They use more wire than a raidal.
The rest is true though.
Blake Butler
>have a 250 word essay due by friday
>haven't even started
>just reading these dumb british plugs posts
help
Caleb Nelson
So are the fuses. I forget what it was exactly, but there was some problem that was difficult and expensive to solve back in the day when they designed it, so they just threw their hands up and decided to force EVERYBODY ELSE to put fuses into the plug and called it a valid solution.
James White
They're overly expensive and anyone who gets killed on an American plug is just a casualty of natural selection.
Robert Martin
>250 words
Seriously?
Evan Price
Fuses protect the connected appliance, not the circuit.
They were handy when circuit breakers were fucking garbage and people used to jam foil or other metal implements in to "repair" them when they broke.
Dylan Young
Circuit breakers don't protect single appliances.
They need to allow enough current for several devices, more than enough to fry a lot of devices.