All outlets should just be replaced with IEC C13. Robust and compact.
Well the answer is obviously the UK plug some of those others are just plain bad. The question is are they all made largely obsolete by USB C ? and is that the closest we are likely to get to a universal plug and socket?
Still trying to figure out why Germany is listed separately from the EU.
The UK plug is nice. Very robust, it connects to ground before it reaches the power line and has a switch but it’s clunky.
Name a more painful thing to tread on than the British plug. Bonus points if it’s incorrectly wired to be live.
I have a strong preference for the German and Swiss types, but I think we can all agree that Japan massively fucked up. They took the already shitty American plug and just forgot about the ground.
My favourite is this one, it makes things go brrrrrr.
Couldn’t find a good photo of the socket online, only the plug. Cba to go take a photo of the socket right now, but I do have it at home and it’s fully functional.
Edit: Searching in Estonian yielded results for the socket too. Someone was auctioning a set 7 years ago.
I’ll fetch the popcorn.
Type I.
ElectroBoom (Youtube) made some points about Australia’s Type I. Seems it was very hard for him to electrocute himself. Lots of breakers on the outlets. I mean he did electrocute himself, but he was always going to.
The UK plug is over engineered and looks like something from a steampunk universe, but I think it’s the best plug overall.
This is the most definitive argument that type J is superior to all others:
Image showing an arrangement of 3 swiss plugs in the same footprint as one french one
what’s type D, ??
There was two different ways you could have ordered this alphabetically, and you failed to do either.
Swiss Type J, because you can have three of them, taking up no more space than one German or French plug.
It’s obviously the one in the country I live in. All the others that I have had zero experience with are from Satan.
