Name a better plug Jow Forums

>can't be plugged upside down
nice bait

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ITT:
>best plug: The plug that the poster has in his country
>shit plug: Everything else
Cmon Jow Forumsentoomen, we have this thread every week.

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so bulky so annoying
stoneage plug

butt plug

People make fun of the british plug, but this is why we dont have guns, every power cord is a 2kg flail.

Master race

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Butt plug for [spoiler]you[/spoiler]

>>can't be plugged upside down
That is a good thing.

I'm dutch mate

Stop plugging (heeeeyoooooo) your crazy ideas, Tom Scott

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never
>youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q

> unplugs toaster
> moves to bathroom to make toasties in tub
> go to grab bread
> plug landed prong side up (as expected)
> step on plug
> “owie”
> proceed to make toasties in tub
Yeah the plug is preddy gud

Explain in detail why that's a good thing.

Because electricity has polarity, and if you get it backwards, shit's going to break.
Nobody wants to add reverse polarity protection to literally fucking everything.

Schuko. Checkmate.

>alternating current
>polarity

A lot of devices have the switch on the phase, so if you plug it in upside down then everything after the switch is now live but there's no path out to the neutral.

ur moms vagina, pajeet

I love the british plug, my main issue with it not being reversible is that some housings for power adapters go up and some go down, so on surge protectors I end up with gaps where another plug is covering two sockets. Some protectors I have have rotating sockets at least, but it's still a faff.

And how would you know, user?

What devices are you using? I've never seen anything that behaves like that.

Fuck, you're right.
I'm an idiot.

The UK plug for the Apple Watch is the best plug.

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Is this some new form of the revolutionary American education?

Yes, I realised how stupid of a thing I said too.

Australian power sockets (compared with UK sockets):
Cons:
- a kid could probably stick a small metal knife in and older power point
Pros:
- it's not a fucking caltrop

I have one of these on my desk and I'm constantly playing with it. Does anyone else do this? It's kind of amazing.
I have loads of them that go up. This one on the right from a really old lacie drive just happens to be unplugged, compared to the one on the left which is a battery charger.

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No worries user. Everyone maeks mistakes.

>I have one of these on my desk and I'm constantly playing with it. Does anyone else do this? It's kind of amazing.
Mine's plugged in next to my bed, but when ever I handle it I feel compelled to fidget with it. The springiness is fucking perfect.

Where the fuck is this from?

Thankfully I have two surge protectors and one of them has rotating sockets, pic related.

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Then why is there a Live and a Neutral wire? Surely they are both live?

It alternates. You can reverse it all the way you want and nothing will happen.
An electrician once told me that you get shocked when you touch the livewire, and nothing happens if you touch neutral. I'm not entirely sure why that is so.

It's about what goes where. Read up on Electric potential.

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>reverse polarity
>Alternating current

Is this what it means to be an American?

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One is live and one is ground reference at the transformer (neutral)
The UK plug is better as these should never be swapped around

>The UK plug is better as these should never be swapped around
Eeeeeeeeeeeeh, no.
So long as your equipment is properly designed it doesn't matter one bit. The problem is more that a lot of (particularly older or cheap) equipment isn't properly designed.
For some things, yes, polarity is absolutely important, but most sockets that allow reversing have some form of forcing it if it is required (see American sockets that have a larger hole for the Neutral, so if polarity is important you use a plug with a taller Neutral pin so it only goes one way).

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But if ac changes polarity doesn't that mean both live and neutral are interchangeable? Then why don't we get shocked at neutral?

mfw europoor have superior plug as we can plug it upside down

most devices that do AC/DC conversion for power will usually take a power cable with ANY polarity.
AV equipment is like this, and part of the reason is so you can ensure all the devices you have plugged in are on the same phase. Plugging a non-polarized power plug into an AC wall outlet doesn't change the polarity of the output but it can put the device out of phase with other devices, causing noise and other problems in audio equipment. Way more of a problem with old analog gear but still relevant.

Thats why you dont want to mix live and neutral Thats a bad thing

*plugging it in upside down
derp

I learned all I know from Bob Transformer
>youtube.com/watch?v=zFN0wqUIY6o

You are all lovely people and I'm glad I get to spend time with you.

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>i dont understand basics about the grid
Just stop

>Then why don't we get shocked at neutral?
Because the neutral is low potential.

I just wish anyone would start using schuko so I don't need a travel adapter

mfw Europoor starts acting like a burger

Well there's some that are shit by everyone's standard, like the American one. UK plug is alright but it's a bit big.

Holy shit! It's a transformer.

once you connect them they're both live.

Underrated

This bad boy right here

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What the fuck am I reading

Switzerland and Brazil have adopted it. It is by far the safest and smoothest plug.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1

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>No fuse that's custom for the thin cord

Can you AC adaptor do this

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Just use circuit breakers. Plugs with fuses are an outdated British thing.

Perhaps it was true in the past that British plugs were the safest in the world. However, electrical safety has moved on significantly since the British plug was introduced in 1947, and a fuse in a plug is a primitive device compared to a modern circuit breaker. But British plugs still need to contain fuses due to a peculiarity in the way that British homes are wired: the UK is almost unique in favouring the “ring circuit”, which is a large circuit that typically covers an entire floor of a house.

Get on my level

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The problem is every house in the UK, Hong Kong and everywhere else using our plug would need to be rewired due to ring circuits. British houses that have circuit breakers have a 40amp breaker and 1 socket circuit in a smaller house

Used to know a guy who was on the team that designed those.

See

Maybe you could put the fuses in the sockets instead of the plugs. Then you could adopt the plug standards of the rest of the world.

Standard 2 prong European plug because with a pencil I can just plug it into our retarded plug as well.

Would be way to expensive and what's the point of moving to a inferior plug.
Cords are custom fused under the current system at 1amp 3amp 5amp or 13amp when under every other system every cord is fused at 15 amps.
In the eyes of a British electrician that's dangerous.

6 ring circuits if done right. Sockets down, lights down, sockets up, lights up, kitchen appliances, boiler.

My house has 4 circuits in total but it was wired in the 50's. 1 socket circuit 1 lights and the shower circuit and then the water heater circuit

These are painful as fuck to step on. I've done it many times in my life. At least you can't tread on the burger plugs.

>Name a better plug Jow Forums
Literally anything else that wasn't hacked together in post-war times.

hngggggg

>that pin that just won't go into its hole
nah

Swiss plugs are based

t. not even swissfag

Then british electricians are just dumb
You wont find a cable smaller than 0,75square on anything mains, and those are totally safe on 16amp breaker.
Stuff that akshually draws power is 1-1.5 and takes 16 amps all day long

POO

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Schuko
Only downside is that you might end up ripping half of the wall out along with the outlet itself.
These fuckers sit in pretty tight.

jk
>mfw i had to snip the corners off of the wide side to plug it in to christmas lights over the weekend. its okay right guise?

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No, unplug it immediately. That extra insulation is vital.

what insulation? i mean the prong.

SIX MILLION VOLTS

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well, technically he's correct, as there will almost always be some malformed wave on the net
meaning there will be a DC offset

this might be valid
however, while there is a convention where to put the live wire on the socket, it is not guaranteed.
if you design your hardware to rely on this, you are going to have a bad time.

It's also unfused and can be inserted backwards, therefore if a plug is inserted the wrong way you could turn the neutral off while leaving the appliance live

that doesnt matter for line appliances
An UK style plug fuse is not a device fuse
plug polarity...
You treat both Hot and Neutral as live, just as you should

The actual best plug system coming through

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Did you ask him why

These are the best