Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoWhat is the best Power Outlet, and why?media.piefed.socialimagemessage-square486linkfedilinkarrow-up1649arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up1632arrow-down1imageWhat is the best Power Outlet, and why?media.piefed.socialEk-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square486linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThe Octonaut@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·1 month agoSo is the shutter system. Blocking contacts unless a third is pushed in is great safety, particularly with kids.
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·1 month agoAnd having your chargers look like clown shoes compared to the slender 2-pin chargers used in Europe, Australia and elsewhere is a small price to pay. Do more kids really die of electrocution in, say, France or Germany than the UK?
minus-squarechildOfMagenta@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoJust jab a pen tip in the earth shutter, so you can push a European plug in, with little force. The diameters of the prongs are close.
minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoThat is true, though it is still taking up far more space than it could if the system accommodated unearthed plugs.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoI have no data, but seeing how modern differential fuses work, I doubt it.
So is the shutter system. Blocking contacts unless a third is pushed in is great safety, particularly with kids.
And having your chargers look like clown shoes compared to the slender 2-pin chargers used in Europe, Australia and elsewhere is a small price to pay.
Do more kids really die of electrocution in, say, France or Germany than the UK?
Just jab a pen tip in the earth shutter, so you can push a European plug in, with little force. The diameters of the prongs are close.
That is true, though it is still taking up far more space than it could if the system accommodated unearthed plugs.
I have no data, but seeing how modern differential fuses work, I doubt it.
That’s what I was referring to