That's different than what my French friend brought over. Aren't they usually quite bulkier? The ends on her chargers were large round bulky things, with the 3 narrow prongs sticking off. What she had also matched the European adapters I see sold at the electronics store here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This one is Brazilian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The majority of Europe uses two types of outlets and plugs. One bigger that's usually grounded and bulkier and one smaller. The smaller one is always ungrounded and is compatible with either outlet.

The french bulkier outlets are also slightly different that what is common elsewhere. Their ground connection is a prong in the outlet while the rest of Europe has two clip things in the outlets. Most modern plugs accept both outlets though.

Bulkier plug image

Bulkier outlet image

Bulkier french outlet

Smaller (euro)plug image

Smaller outlet (plus bonus bulkier one)

Sometimes the smaller outlet isn't actually smaller..

The bulkier European plugs and outlets are very safe. It's impossible to short the pins during insertion and they never go out from the outlet without you intending for it to do so.

[–] Anticorp 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah yup! The French one is exactly what I was thinking of. I didn't realize that there are different outlets in different EU countries. That's gotta be annoying when traveling.

It's impossible to short the US ones too. Plugs only go in one way if they're polarized, or if they're grounded. Some devices aren't polarized and they can be plugged in right side up, or upside down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Ah yup! The French one is exactly what I was thinking of. I didn't realize that there are different outlets in different EU countries. That's gotta be annoying when traveling.

I honestly don't travel too much but I don't imagine it would be a big deal.

Pretty much all phone chargers use the smaller version plug that fits in almost all outlets in Europe.

And the modern bulkier plugs usually have both a hole in the buttom to fit french outlets and the clip things to fit other European outlets.

[–] AA5B 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s horrible: only one is grounded? A grounded plug can only use half your outlets? Surely to multi-use outpost can also support grounded plugs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's because the installation is old, new ones are always grounded

[–] Iron_Lynx 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Looks Swiss, but I see down the thread that Brazil uses a similar type.

Either way, the Swiss plug feels to me like what if you took the modest CEE 7/16 Europlug and grafted a ground pin onto that.

[–] systemguy_64 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

South Africa also adopted the type N socket