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What is the best style electrical outlet? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago by JusticeForPorygon to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

I just wanted to throw the AU/NZ plug into the mix since nobody is really talking about it. I don't have enough knowledge about this kind of thing to really have a take on it, but I'm interested to get an international perspective.

ANZ/NS3112

[–] cashews_best_nut 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ghostface!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why I never made that association before, but now I can't unsee it.

[–] slazer2au 1 points 10 months ago

It gets better with the switches as they look like a high ghost

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

For some strange reason that's used in Argentina also. Not sure why here the ground is the same length than the others, though.

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

Pros:

not as big as the UK plug
not an American plug
those power cords that stick out at a diagonal parallel to the wall

Cons:

no inbuilt fuses
no inbuilt guard on the socket
every plug and socket feels cheap.
thin shitty pins that bend easily
shitty sockets that break when shitty bent pins get plugged into them.
used by a handful of people with tight regulations … and China. Good luck getting decent affordable, certified, smarthome sockets.
that cunt who invented the vertically oriented twin socket wall unit. What a fuckhead.
those power cords that stick out perpendicular to the wall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just mentioned NZ/AUS plus, probably as you were typing ;)

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

Hah. Yeah, I definitely prefer the size over UK plugs. It feels wrong to me to have a 230v wall voltage without a blanket requirement for earthing, but as I said, I don't know enough about it. I'm quite open to being wrong about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

having gotten zapped by 120VAC and 230VAC I totally agree. the former sucks and is no fun while the latter made me question my life choices

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

It's better than the US one, but it's just worse compared to the European ones. It's hard to get them aligned in the dark/behind furniture, but at least it won't fall out by itself.