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@@zingyburger u even edited 😂
How are you on every video I’ve clicked on today!
@@michealsweeney7656 because this is the only one you've clicked on today..?
@@zingyburger *your
1:26 wait what? You can plug them in the wrong way??? *laughs in european*
i live in us, and my small appliances still work the wrong way
@@RubySapior isn't that... a main feature of AC?
Yeah, it's really fun plugging in 1 metal piece into the power extension cord and having the other metal piece just sit on the side, waiting for you to complete a circuit and zap you.
@@GTAmaniac1 Yes and no. Most AC systems use something called the MEN system, multiple earthed neutral. At all points of the circuit, ground and neutral should be at the same potential, and this is ensured by connecting the two together and earthing them with an earth rod at multiple points from the transformer, to the pedestal or whatever outside the house, to the switchboard. This means that pre outlet it's extremely important not to get phase and neutral switched around, but after the outlet it does not matter, as appliances never have the neutral connected to ground. Some plug types are designed to be plugged in either way and it's fine, but these are always appliances without an earth pin. The North American style plug doesn't have a "wrong way" you are right about that, but that doesn't apply past the outlet. Very bad things can happen if you get it wrong in the wiring, things like having live water pipes and such. Plumbers have been killed in my country from such mistakes.
@@Patrick-857 you learn something every day
2019: I hate having to carry around all these adapters when I travel 2020: i wish I could travel
...yea... me Too
Yes thays correct
Simple: be poor. If you can't afford to travel, you'll never be sad when you can't travel cause you never could.
@@witchdoc4185 yea that is pretty much right.
Fuck that’s so true lmao
As a Brit, I never knew that plugging in the wrong way was an existing issue...
Honestly as an aussie I didn't ether
As an Iberian I didn't either
Isn't because its AC?
@@taktuscat4250I think all plugs run on AC
You cannot plug in a UK plug the wrong way because the plug is designed to prevent it happening ( unlike in many other places ). The UK supply is also better because one line is connected to natural and makes the entire system safer.
OMG we have 23 different standards... We'll make ONE for all ... OMG we have 24 different standards ..
What about not making a new one, an just choose one and agree on it ?
One for every hour of the day
@@foobar879 Good luck with that
15sixSeVeN EightNine45
@@foobar879 because then you spend forever in a pissing contest of who's is better and should become the standard
Why even use power outlets? Just pull the copper wires out from behind the wall and you're good to go lmao
Dude how did you finish off the video sooo fast and are you some type of bot cause I see you EVERYWHERE
I wonder why nobody thought of that
@@zingyburger try watching video at twice the speed
M8 Switzerland stole motherland Germanys power outlet
@Oh Yeah yeah Ever think that he just runs to the comments section with his other buddies (Justin Y., Taikamuna, Evariste Galois etc...) just to get top comment?
"It hurts to get shocked, so anyways here's a video with ElectroBOOM"
The UK plug is really good as they have fuse inside them, if you get a power shortage cut or anything like that you item won't get damaged. The fuse is really easy to change as well
not all uk plugs have them, however having a ground/earth prong as standard is really good
@@lvgio All UK plugs are fused; it's literally part of the specification for the plug design.
@@transformersguy234 YEAH FELLA NORTH WEST IS BEST DONT MESS
Their wall sockets also have a non-conductive shutter which blocks access to the power pin holes, until the slightly longer earth pin from the plug is pushed in first. The non-conductive sheath at the base of the power pins on their plugs is also a pretty good safety feature, just in case the plug isn't completed and properly inserted, no live metal can be touched.
@@lvgio If a UK plug doesn't have a fuse (with exception of shaver 2 pins where the outlets fused) its a Chinese knock of plug that doesn't meet British standards.
240 volts and exposed wires yeah that’s rural australia
Haha we just hard wire it in who needs outlets
That's Guyana too
and in russia you can’t tell between the 10 000 volt power line and the wire for the light switch
@@Slavicplayer251 In Soviet Russia volts power you
Markic 001 it powers you till death
Good luck getting the U.S. to follow any standard the rest of the world uses! 😂 We still don’t accept metric, PAL, or Celsius. 🤔🤷🏻♂️
What the fuck are you talking about? the official measurement unit in the US is metric, it's been metric for decades.
@@Sighound yeah but find me 10 construction fellas in a hundred who know that 8ft is 2400mm and I'll eat my hat
@@capnskiddies We use both depend on the situation. Dealing with scientific shit or with other countries? Metric. All else? Freedom units.
Why would we use PAL? Even some parts of Europe don't use PAL, they use SECAM or NTSC.
Oh yeah? You might find people using metric or Celsius in a lab, but you won’t find it anywhere else. I guarantee you go tell someone that it’s too hot at °50 and they’ll be totally confused and if you said Boston was 1000 Km away, they’d grimace at you and ask how much that was in miles. The point was that we come up with our own standards and expect the rest of the world to conform to us, not the other way around. I didn’t imply that was necessarily a bad thing, just that it’s a thing.
"There aren't any wars going on" Well, that aged well.
A lot of things here didn't age well. Maybe the whole thing of travelling.
You took the words out of my mouth
lol I thought that too.
there's been war all the time
There is always some war going on coups, civil wars, world powers exerting influence on smaller nations are going on somewhere around the world somewhere
We actually do have an international plug standard that is used in all countries, IEC 60320 C13/C14, commonly known as a "kettle cord". You know, the plug that goes into the back of your PSU... Excellent plug standard.
The Wikipedia article about that was an interesting read, thanks!:)
Thing is, having different plugs is a good thing 'cause it means you don't end up plugging a device that needs 5amps 60 volts into something that supplies 10 amps 120 volts. Made up numbers ofc.
@@scootergrant8683 That's why you put a fuse on the plug for the amps it's rated for, like UK plugs do. It'll blow that instead of the whole breaker if there's a spike for example.
@@TalesOfWar Yes of course. But that isn't always the case in many countries especially without strict standards.
Wouldn't be suitable for a home though, no shuttering and would be very risky around children if installed in walls.
Worst things to stand on ranking most painful to least painful; 1. UK plug 2. LEGO 3. Lava
As a European with British family, I can confirm UK plugs are military fucking caltrops!!
INCORRECT my good sir the most painful is an Australian power plug
Type G plugs were originally designed to replace explosive mines.
The floor is UK plugs.
As a British guy who habitually walks around the house barefoot, I can tell you that keeping plugs tidy and off the floor is THE number one priority ;-)
I know right, like why haven’t they implemented RGB into them yet? _Pisses me off..._
You can.
Valid. But I want RGB toilet paper. Invest your time there people. Make my dreams a reality!
Please don't encourage Razer to make more shitty RGB products :(
actually not a bad idea if you need to find your outlets in the dark. "Hey alexa, show me my outlet"s
Well RBG freaks out the cat and the result is not pretty...
Can we also talk about how some device's plugs are so bulky that you can barely put them in the same power strip and have to basically play tetris with them?!
my monitor has this adapter that you can rotate, it's pretty big but you can point whichever direction you want so it pretty much always fits. all plugs should be like this IMO..
“Linus gets shocked by North American plug” Laughs in British
*Tom Scott enters the chat*
right up until you step on the fuckers.
@@dixie_rekd9601 better than the complete lack of safety features you guys have
@@arandomsomething8562 what lack of safety features?
@@dixie_rekd9601 a child could zap themselves easily and the fact that you don't have any earth pins
You can get shocked by outlets *laughs In uk*
That's why it's only 120v instead of your crazy 240v 32a ring circuits
Simon Richard have you compared kettle boiling times in the us vs uk? We need our tea to boil this century. Gotta have our priorities straight!
@@JustWillB You can always put a kettle on the stove? Idk I don't drink coffee/tea
@@simonrichard9873 good luck putting the common plastic electric kettle on the stove
@@saint3211 Do you think I'm stupid? Get a kettle that goes on the stove (they still make those right?)
Reminds me of an xkcd comic: Before: there are 24 competing standards to choose from "That's madness , we need a universal standard" After: there are 25 competing standards to choose from
I actually like the fact that the Europe more or less unified the plugs thanks to CEE 7/7 which is fully compatible with both Type E and SCHUKO sockets.
@John McClintock Thank you very much. :)
the best thing to do in that situation is to support a standard you want to see win
I don't find that rings true. USB has done a pretty good job of bringing all the data standards down to a handful. The main thing is you need to do is set up a massive world wide organisation to pull the standard together. It takes years of sweat and blood to ensure everyone is happy. And there will still be one or two hold outs *cough* apple *cough*.
@@Crusader1089 Yes. And they since started brought up several client side sockets since then that it felt not "standard". Off course i know about the needs, but especially the "Mini USB is dead, long live the Micro USB" felt a little uneccessary.
Regarding changing plug standards, the UK has already done this once in the 1950s to replace three different plugs for various current capacities. For quite some time appliances used to come without a plug at all (!) and you were expected to buy one and know how to install it yourself. It was only in 1994 that appliance manufacturers had to include a pre-wired plug on equipment.
@@KiraSlith that’s just not true.
@@KiraSlith go touch a us plug
@@KiraSlith lol, it really is not. Also its Rule, Britannia not hail 😂
@@KiraSlith lol, no.
@@Trancra That idiot is all over the comments trying to bring Britain down but it just won't work.
Linus: It's 2019 and there are no wars, let's figure this out CoVid-19 in 2020: I got you !!
Russia and Ukraine in 2022: I got you!
@@The0GamingHero was about to say lol
Well about that amigo
@@The0GamingHero This didn't age well...
@@ItsNicolau Not for Ukraine, anyways!
I moved from the UK to the UAE and was amazed that they have the same outlets and voltage. I now live in the USA and hate the outlets here with a passion! Flimsy, unstable and a max continuous wattage of 1500W. Gone are the days of speedy 3000W kettles in my kitchen! 6 minutes to boil a kettle. 1st world problems.
I believe all gulf countries changed to the UK outlet, I live in Saudi Arabia and that's what we have now
Tom Maxwell But being shocked by 110v is a lot better than 220v. Anyways you are only limited to the amount of watts you can pull by your breaker and the gauge wire in your home. 14 gauge is standard, which can handle 15 amps (1800 watts) but 12 gauge can handle 20 amps (2400 watts). Regular electric stoves normally run 10 gauge wires at 30 amps, Some even run at 30 amp 220v. Which is more than enough to boil water in less than 5 minutes. It kinda depends on that stove you got. As for the “flimsy” plugs the outlets in your home could be worn out and not hold the plug tight in place (you have to replace the plug for a new one to fix this). The over reason they could be flimsy is that the plug itself could be bad from the factory (Chinese crap). Always grab the plug from the plastic part at the base they normally have a lip at the end to make sure your hand doesn’t slip and touch the prongs. Like I said 110v is a whole lot forgiving than 220v If you touch it.
@@cadend6844 stop. the entire *world* agrees that your plug and voltages are bad, thats why nobody else uses them
@@cadend6844 First off, running 1800W continuous is a good way to burn your house down. ~1500W is the rated continuous wattage for a 15A circuit which is ~80% of the max load. A 20A circuit is only rated for a ~1900W max continuous load. It is pretty much impossible to be shocked by a UK 220V plug unless you do something really stupid. The hot and neutral wires are covered and are only opened when the ground pin is inserted into the outlet. The other two prongs are coated so by the time that the ground (which extends past the other 2 pins) is in far enough to open the other two holes only the coated portion of the prongs is touchable. Tom Scott has a great video explaining how the plug works.
longshot726 sorry didn’t look up the codes of what they are rated for. As for the plugs I agree but they are very bulky. If there was a way to make the slim that would be nice. But having all of North America change voltages and prongs isn’t exactly practical. You can still argue about what is safer but having every single home, plug, device and any thing you plug into 110v rewired will never happen. It’s best to just leave alone and carry a adapter (apple users all ready carry like 5, what’s 1 or 2 more)
“It’s 2019 and there’s no world wars going on” 2020: Now this looks like a job for me
Dank_Crusad3r This is an epic gamer moment
Damn you said it first
Kaiux07 yup yup ^__^
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The UK plug redesign was anything but hasty. It was part of a whole process of setting building standards for post war reconstruction, when committees were formed in 1941 during the height of the war. The Electrical Installation Committee was set up in 1942 with the study off all aspects of electrical installations in buildings. The eventual standard (BS1363) appeared in 1947, so it had been in the works for five years. It's not even as if the previous round-pin plugs were fatally flawed; they could have been modified to introduce modern safety features (some of which was already available). However, there were multiple plug sizes, and the committee decided to go for a clean sheet design rather than adapt the existing one as happened in Europe and North America. I should add that the older round-pin UK standard is still legal to be used, but it's only in some special purposes, notably in theatre lighting where the absence of the in-plug fuse makes fault isolation simpler. India still uses that standard.
UK uses 32A ring circuits because of material shortages way back then. The fused UK plug is the way it is to compensate for the shortcomings of a ring circuit. It all worked well enough when there were few high power users but is unfit for modern times. TL-DR, a ring circuit concentrates all power use in a single point of failure, the failure being an increased risk of a distribution panel fire. Modern installations require metal panels since they are better keeping these fires contained. Plus a whole lot of other measures. It's the insurance companies that found out there was a problem in their statistics.
@@astranger448 This is an often quoted "fact" and is a simplified versions. If you want radial circuits in the UK, then you can have them. They have always been legal and are common. As far as shortcomings are concerned, then the use of high current circuits, whether ring or radial (both are used in UK households) are highly advantageous. They are much more flexible, allow multiple relatively high powered devices to be plugged in freely, and are especially useful in locations like kitchens. As for the fuse per plug, then prior to the BS1363 standard, the previous one had different sized plugs for different ratings with different circuit ratings. The decision to put fuses in plugs was to enable a single plug to be used for everything from a 3A table lamp to a 13A space heater using common circuits. The thin cable on a table lamp is not properly protected by a 16A breaker. The fuse per plug idea came first, and the flexibility to exploit higher power circuits came from that. It was manifestly not the case that ring circuits were designed first and the fuse came as a solution. The fuse in the plug approach was there from the very start. Your statement about insurance companies and statistics just seems to be another bit of folklore. Perhaps you can produce a reference to these statistics that you claim exist. Problems with plastic distribution panels were caused by failures in MCBs and poorly made connections not by problems with ring circuits. There are plenty of other high powered circuits to be found in consumer units, like those for electric showers (up to 40A), electric cookers (also up to 40A) and electric water heaters. Non-combustible consumer units makes sense from the beginning. There can be up to 100A of current through those things, and all it requires is a hot spot caused because of a failure to torque down the incoming tails properly and there is a fire risk. The BS1363 socket was introduced with several safety measures. For example, shuttered sockets, polarised connections, that the earth engages before live or neutral and is also the last to be disconnected and, within the plug the wires were firmly anchored, and if that failed, the wire routings an lengths were explicitly designed so the live pulled out first, then the neutral and last the earth. The insulated upper parts of the live and neutral pins was not, however, in the original standard - that came in the 1980s, but otherwise the safety features are as designed. Of course, these days there are now MCBs and residual current devices which were not available when BS1363 was devised, so things only got safer. The ‘Post War Building Study No. 11 - Electrical Installations’ in January 1944 and the ‘Supplementary Report’ is worth looking at. It was the result of 22 meetings held to review standards and why the decisions were made. Safety was always a primary concern, which is why the only type of socket allowed in UK bathrooms under those regulations is a two pin one with an isolating transformer so there is no route to ground.
@@TheEulerID I'm very much up to date on how things in the UK work. I'm a non UK/English speaking engineer. Everything I need to know on how your systems work I get from original documents. Same with all the other important European ones, I'm out of necessity a bit of a polyglot. I can compare. So your adoption of radial circuitry is there just fine and there are loads of very good explainers by professionals all over the internet. The thing about insurance companies. It could be folklore, one video on the internet is not proof of things. But if this video is UK electricians (proper work practices), UK panel builders (Plastic VS metal), tool makers (torque screwdrivers for correct screw tightening) sit together with insurers to sort out a problem the presence of the insurance guys is telling. A merely technical problem can do without one. Ring circuits. Could break without you noticing. Your ring is now an improperly fused radial. And nothing stops you from connecting a load of space heaters on a single ring slowly heat stressing a whole series of connections all within the spec's of the fuse plug and the 32A breaker (I simplify to clarify my point) anything could be connected, you have no control. And the heat loss in a bad contact is current squared, 32A hits 4 times harder than 16A. A radial circuit for a single high power appliance does not suffer from this, everything is known it advance (within limits) and can be prepared for. I readily agree that the way things were done back in the day was fit for purpose and that you keep updating all the time to stay fit for purpose. The problem is that this is the internet. It's full with videos singing the praise of the UK plug, being backed up by professionals. Everybody who understands English and is cursed with a really bad system (US?) now wants a UK one now but they are no professionals and pick up the good without knowing about the bad. They are also not capable of comparing with eg the German system because Germans do their thing in German. They learn from our mistakes but we don't learn from theirs. It shows.
@@astranger448 Never had a problem with the UK ring circuit system and have used them all my life. What ever device(s) you plug into them, they just work.
@@astranger448 Many clearly do not understand what a final ring circuit is. The ultimate system is to have a radial circuit to _each socket outlet_ on its own fuse at the main panel - the optimum solution of course. This means you will need a _very large_ expensive main panel and lots of fuses/MCBs (one for each socket) in the main panel. Impractical of course. 🎊🎈 *BINGO* 🎊🎈 *A ring gives this by distributing the main panel around the house via a ring cable,* distributing the fuses from the main panel around the building to each socket. *The ring is a busbar.* This saves the vast expense of a plethora of radial cables back to the main panel and also a plethora of expensive fuses/MCB's/RCBO/AFDDs at a _very large_ expensive main panel and expensive labour to install. *a)* A ring uses less cable and gives a longer route *b)* No limit to sockets on the ring, but total is limited to typically 32A. *c)* A ring uses less copper for a given load/area. *d)* Rings rarely have voltage drop as it is fed from both ends. *e)* Rings have lower impedance, less volt drop is less waste! They are more efficient. *f)* No single point of failure for the protective earth. *g)* If you are covering all rooms in one floor then a ring can do it. *h)* An appliance and its flexible cable may have a fuse sized to its rating inside its plug. *1.* Ring final 2.5mm cable, 32A B-curve MCB, length *106m* on TN-C-S. *2.* Ring final 4mm cable, 32A B-curve MCB, length *171m.* *3.* Radial final 2.5mm cable, 25A B-curve MCB, length *33m.* *4.* Radial final circuit, 4mm cable, 32A B-curve MCB, length *43m.* If a ring is in 4mm cable protected by a 32A MCB/RCBO, then no problems if the cable is broken - which is a very rare thing. The ring can be partially 4mm to heavy current appliance sockets and 2.5mm for the rest The ring final circuit is safe, simple, and highly effective after 80 years of use. The introduction of MCBs/RCBOs/RCDs/AFDDs, and Wagos on the ring, has made the ring even safer.
"We have gathered here today to decide on a single worldwide plug standard to be used for the future. So which one shall it be?" Everyone: "MINE!" "Well, at least we somewhat agree..."
its uk tho
The choice is easy: UK plug.
Danish plugs are the happiest, lets go with theirs
The American ones are shit destroy them all From an American who's shocked herself 3 times on these silly plugs We need those gaurds and with it skinny the metal flap can easily bend and break
European plug is the best choice!
The real problem is when manufacturers have the transformer connected to the plug so your outlet or power strip quickly gets taken up by stupid bricks that can block other outlet plugs. It's worse than this because I hardly travel so I have the same plugs for everything, but not enough room to plug them in because of giant bricks hogging all the space.
Yeah, but modern "bricks" are switch mode and therefore much smaller and lighter then classic ones. But, it would be cool to have 5v and/or 12/24v DC outlets in the house as world standard.
:l yeah those are the worst.
agreed, this makes me go nuts on Nintendo Switch. Its power brick takes too much space when every other console I have is using a normal plug design so you can fit multiple ones beside each other.
The solution I have found is either a PowerSquid or buying a bunch of cheap 1 foot long extension cables. If you buy them around the holidays or black friday you can get 10 of them for under a couple of bucks each. I knew a guy that would super glue them to the wall warts.
@@RedFire998 I don't think there's any room in the switch to do this. Remember the crazy big power bricks that the consoles used to have but then they moved them all internal. At least the switch's plug isn't a huge power brick... but still I feel you.
0:29 Aackshuallyyyy.... All international pilots and air traffic control speak English as a standard. This is true everywhere international flights go. Sure, accents can make it difficult, but they are all required to know English.
So is that part of the reason why English seems to be one of the most universal languages (despite not having the most speakers)?
Thats wrong. A pilot needs 2 languages. English and France because the French straight up refuse to speak English.
InventorZahran 327 Actually, though English doesn't have the highest number of native speakers, English, if you include non-native speakers, even for other languages, does have slightly more speakers than Chinese.
He said the same native language, not that they don't speak the same language.
r/wooosh
Me watching the video: *Laughs in UK and Ireland*
UK's outlets and plugs are just the best. All outlets have their own on/off switch and all plugs have their own fuse, among other cool safety features
They are cool, only downside is their size however. The 2 best plugs are either UK for features, or swiss for being small while still being safe. The on/off switch is not bad to have but, I mean, most cases, appliances have their own switches.
@@swisstraeng The larger size actually allows the things to be packed closer to the wall and not sticking out, like the form factor of the 5W UK apple charger
@@swisstraeng that's false no UK appliance has its own switch
You can plug in your toaster with a plug the size of a toaster!
Ah well in Thailand we use American plugs 🔌 ....Running at 240VAC.....
I wish America would use 240 v
good luck!
david nugget625 nah 110v is fine
Donghoon 110 V theoretically cannot charge as much devices as 240 V as the voltage is split for each device consuming power. And I’m from the US
Yadu Vijayaraman No the voltage isn’t split, the Amperage is split. And either way if you’re trying to charge devices you’re using a switching power supply anyways so it charges at the same rate.
0:35 All air traffic control is done in English. It's the international standard to use the ICAO Standard Phraseology.
He said native language ma dude
That was his point.
@@dinostudios6579 maybe but ist still wrong because if your not at an international airport or not at a big one its normal to speak the native language of the country
Bull shitter That is true, but at least everyone knows a common language, power outlets are just different everywhere without a standard.
@@dinostudios6579 true but the asians, russian and french still cant speak english haha
2019: There aren't any world wars going on 2022: Hello there
3:30 This aged like Milk.
It's not GLOBAL
You guys should do an episode on why printers never freaking work.
"Printer received job and then flashed its one useless light at you" Like seriously - why do people have to pay a million dollars for toner/ink cartridges but the manufactures put one tiny little LED to do EVERYTHING. Or worse, and expensive touch screen that tells you NOTHING. WTF!
Don't buy your printer from the end cap at the grocery store. (Think Walmart)
Printers are the real enemy of all humans!
This is one thing we can all agree on!
You have no clue how many times I have just had to reinstall the printer driver, and it magically worked. And if you use the default Windows drivers, it's somewhat doable, ever tried HP software? I have and it's probably among the most awful pieces of software in existance.
Wait? you can not only plug it in the wrong way, you can also get electrocuted from us plugs? *tries not to burst laughing*
us plugs are superior
Ask Electroboom.
Most people don't get electrocuted because the voltage is only 120 volts. Enough for a nasty shock but not usually enough to kill.
@@griml0gic420 still Id prefer not to get shocked, lol. We dont have hat problem here because our plugs are insulated properly
Cristaliana Ivor idk what this guy is talking about but that chances of you getting shocked are slim unless you put your entire hand on the prongs as you’re plugging it in.
„Plug in the wrong way“ wait how can you plug a powercord in the wrong way? Can someone explain, i am from europe
*laughs in British*
"Is this some sort of peasant joke, I'm to european to understand?"
There's 2 wires going to an appliance, live and neutral. Neutral usually has same potential as earth. If you switch them around then you can have situations where the heating wire in a toaster is live even when its not powered. (As the toaster might just be breaking what it thinks is live). Obviously there are other devices like this but toasters are an easy one to see the safety concern.
@@RossMitchellsProfile thanks, in europe we just plug them in either way
You, in fact, cannot plug anything in the wrong way on accident in the US. The two blades on the plug are different sizes and will not fit the wrong way unless you intentionally force them. Further, most devices are not polarity specific so even plugging them in "the wrong way" doesn't matter, they will work fine. And last, if you have a ground pin, and want to plug it in the wrong way, you have to break off the ground pin first. I agree that the outlets wear out too fast, but they also cost literally $1 to replace.
Electricity: * is invented * The World: let's standardize the plug types. Austria: NO! Let's have a war instead!
Second world war was hitler not the first ma dude
Yeah, because IT has cable standardization all figured out. We will just end up with Power Outlet 3.2 Generation 2 SuperSpeed. Even USB is now ruined.
0:25 Aviation English is the language used by air-traffic controllers.
The controllers, yes... The pilots? Good luck trying to get an english sounding reply from e.g. Air China. You just pray that they're landing on the right runway.
lhl2500 probably trained for that too
That was kind of his point. Notice Linus said "don't speak the same *native* language".
Anybody else getting AVGN “you know what’s bullshit” vibes
Linus: "There isn't any World war going on!" Putin: "Hold my vodka"
world war
2050: aliens failed to invade Earth because of incompatible electricity plugs...
@@Red-Eyed_Black_Cave_Hamster its called the white race
keepin' us safe since 1947
alien bring their own adapter
World War Three starts as an elaborate ruse to get everyone to start using the same damn plug.
EPIC
One plug to rule them all, One standard of USB, One jack for all headphones, And simple, our future will be... If only the electric/tech companies would read this poem...
Thank God for Ajay Bhatt!
DO NOT SAY THE CURSE WORDS
mobile devs be like: fuck a single plug. we got usb c usb D usb cC usb A usb b and heaven forbid u change a phone. u might as well trow out the 4 cables u have. this is why my dad has like 50 different cellphone cables. its fucking nuts.
Then comes apple
You can't really make electrostatic headphones run from a 3.5 jack they don't work the same way.
linus: “power outlets piss me off!” linus, what doesn’t piss you off? 😂😂😂
given you have 220v and 120v you should have diffrent outlets incase someone goes oversees
Funny thing is if you check, lots of devices support 120 and 220. The manufacture just slaps whatever plug is needed for where its going.
Too late, go to south east Asia (Thailand anyone?) and you’ll see US style plugs with 220V...
Lithuania uses 230v I think Some countries use 240 And some I think use 100 Also some use 50hz, others use 60hz
The 240 and 120 plugs are (supposed to be) mechanically incompatible. But people keep cutting corners. 😖
Most power supplies these days work with 120 and 220 aniway. It's not worth manufacturing 2 different ones.
I just jam exposed wires into the holes..
Same
You've got moxy kid, I like it!
My dad is an electrician and he does that all the time. Freaks me out.
Well it does work. As long as your PSU of whatever device can work with 100V-240V,50Hz-60Hz. You could even plug 2 things into the exact same outlet without having to buy a splitter. As long as you dont draw too much power from one fuse. But there are running multiple outlets on the same fuse anyway so, whatever.
@@musguelha14 I'm an electrician and it freaks me out too! I still do it cause convenience...
European Schuko plug for the win! It can easily be plugged in "upside down" while still being grounded (earthed). Also when plugged out and left on the floor there is zero chance for the pointy part to point upwards. Thus can't accidentally step on them in the middle of the night, with excruciating pain.
The pins pointing up, and the plug being fairly bulky, are the only two disadvantages I can think of with the UK design.
@@peter_smyth Pretty much. Also the UK plugs can't be plugged in both ways. Also there has to be an earth plug even on extremely low power devices where it's completely unnecessary, just so it can open those plastic covers on the socket. The sockets on UK power strips on the other hand, at least are usually in a 90 degree angle, which is far better then the power strips they have in America. But in my opinion the 45 degree layout the Schuko ones have is still the best for placing plugs, especially big bulky ones, next to each other.
@@zacky6533 Since the schuko is reversible you can alternate the directions of bulky power adapters making it (sometimes) easier to fit.
I have to say the best solution would be the schoku socket, with the euro-plug and the schoku plug as both allowed plugs. So you have the advantages of having a safety everywhere if the thing you want to plug in needs it, but you can still manufacture cheap plugs for cheap products.
Problem with plugging in either way is that the appliance can then have dangerous voltages on easily accessable parts. Take a table lamp with an e26 lamp fitting.... Plugged in the correct way the phase goes to the end pin on the lamp and the neutral connects to the side connection which is exposed on many styles of lamp.... If the plug can be flipped then that exposed metal at the bottom of the bulb becomes live! And even worse unless the lamp is double pole switched (which few are) even with the lamp turned off that big ring of metal is still live!!
As a German, our recessed plugs are a nice safety feature but cheap travel adapters don't account for it and can't be inserted. The UK standard is the best in my opinion because it keeps the power sockets closed until an earth pin has been inserted
And the springs that accomplish that are prone to failing after 2-3 years of having the same plug inserted.
@@KiraSlith any proof? Never had a single issue with one not working in my life, including ones where a TV or kitchen equipment has been plugged in for over 20 years.
same for swiss plugs.
@@byz2482 this person has commented the same thing on at least one other thread, and probably more. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
@@KiraSlith They are? I have never come across it. Not once.
2:59 everyone constantly skipping WWI for WW2 just to go full Godwin's Law
despite the first one being just as deep in terms of story smh people skipping the first season
One plug... You can't even get the US to use the metric system like the rest of the modern world, do you REALLY think they would use another plug?
Do you hate the US? Linus talked about Canada having the same plug..
@@malachi3438 I hate the US for backing out of converting to the metric system at the last minute under Reagan. US and Canada were supposed to switch at the same time in the 70's and they bombed us. Because of it, we're stuck in a middle gray area having been unable to fully convert, even though officially we are metric. ;-)
@@malachi3438 right... Someone who doubts that this universal, global standard will work if a big nation like the US prefers to stay with their inferior system (and it is inferior since scientific applications use the metric system) hates the US. Absolut positively is it hate.... Are you drunk or something? I am a big advocate fir the American way of freedom and human rights, but I can see flaws that are there!
I wish us in the states would switch to the metric system I work on vehicles for a living and since the 90s came around everything is metric anyways I'd like to keep miles per hour though
Erebos alright so say that you’ve been using the metric system all of your life and all of the sudden everything changes from C°, KPH, kg to F°, MPH, and Ibs. You wouldn’t want to change something that you’ve been so used to all of your life.
"Why can't we get people to adopt just one plug? Surely there's a superior design that outshines the others..." **checks comment section** "Oh, that's why."
There is, the EU standard is obviously the best, but Americans and Britbongs are too full of themselves to change their fucking standard.
Yeah, it's basically European vs British Plugs down here. What they don't realize is, that the UK plug is basically the same as the EU plug except the EU plug being a little bit safer and more versatile. But hey, that's just normal Brittain stuff, they'll get over it at some point.
yep it's British plugs
@@vffa the one british plug looks like you'd stab yourself on it.
@@Chronically_ChiII Isn't the British plug the safest? Europlug has no ground, isn't rewirable/replaceable, contains no fuse, and has no protection against short circuiting.
"Its 2019 and there aren't any world wars going on" 2022: ....
As an Australian, I got a real shock at how much to American sockets sucked when I first traveled there.
They don't have to be sturdy because they're half the voltage. Our 240v sockets are robust.
@@The_Ballo where I was staying the plugs were almost falling out of the sockets.
@@fishingfan1500 Sounds ghetto. US had electricity a lot longer than the rest of the world so there are some crappy old floppy connectors out there designed in the 40s but nobody holds a gun to your head to stay at some sleazy motel
@@The_Ballo I wouldn't say the Mirage Hotel is very ghetto 😅 I think they'd copped a lot of use. I think our angle pinned plugs are a better idea, they don't fall out as easy, that was our opinion after our encounter.
Most countries: WHY CANT YOU JUST -BE NORMAL- USE THE SAME PLUG? US: *SCREAMS*
US:WHY WON'T YOU GUYS USE THE SUPERIOR NTSC!? Most of the world: *SCREAMS*
@@theironsword1954 tell me in the name of God, how the hell is NTSC superior to PAL? you are tripping mate
@@jrstudio07 I just retyped this three times because KZhead is off their rocker, jesus. Anyways, please, enlighten me about how PAL/625 is better than NTSC/525 and SECAM/625. Yes, I understand there is a notable picture detail improvement, a much wider color range, more stable hues and a gamma level of 2.8, but NTSC has less flicker, a better color editing, and less picture noise. That picture detail and all those colors aren't going to do you much good if you don't have a clean line of sight, which PAL fails to deliever with its ugly flickering and picture noise. SECAM/625 is basically PAL, but you take all the good stuff, exponentially increase it, and then take the bad stuff, and exponentially increase it in the same way. Better colors and such, but that flicker and noisy picture isn't going to let you see much.
@@theironsword1954 NTSC was also cheaper/easier to implement when TV first started becoming popular. kzhead.info/sun/ZquDhbFup3WmmK8/bejne.html
@@CausticLemons7 Honestly, I just looked up the comparisons of PAL/625 and NTSC/525, I didn't realize it was also cheaper back then.
3:11 I thought it was gonna be a sponsor from London / related to London
JPL Toy Experience me too
JPL Toy Experience I thought it was gonna be a sponsor completely unrelated to London, considering how terrible Linus' segues usually are 😊
lmao
More like sponsor that has nothing to do with London
The world should adopt the UK standard for plugs, it is foolproof, and far superior to anything the world has to offer. Its inbuilt fuse system protects electrical products against power surges or spikes too. The only drawback is that you sometimes have to watch where you are walking if you have socks on... Ouch.
I think it's not up to you to decide what souvereign countries use for their outlets. Hubris much?
@@SimSim-zf9if no steppy on snek 😎 🐍
It is an obsolete designed for a specific situation. There is zero chance anyone would even consider that. If there ever was a standard it would be IEC 60906-1
We in the UK will use your standard when you add mandatory fuses, switches, and ground prongs, and a better safety mechanism so you don't shock yourself
& an off and on switch on the wall to isolate the power.
You in the uk will suffer from overpopulation because your oversized safety prevents dumb people from hurting themselves.
@@martinhughes2549 He said that.
3:33 If someday that happens I hope they also standardise the usage of other things like inches/meters, miles/km and celsius/Fahrenheit.
Joako C. its called the metric system and most of the world uses it
have you ever looked at a map showing which countries use imperial still (inches, miles, fahrenheit) vs those that use metric? there are literally THREE holdouts. Liberia (in western africa), Myanmar (aka Burma, South-east asia, next to Thailand), and... the USA. metric -is- the standard, there's just holdouts and older people who are more familiar with the old system and/or use both.
@@tzxazrael I take it you have never traveled to Belize. I have, and the road signs are all in miles, height in feet/inches, temperature in Fahrenheit, ... theres also a few countries who've converted to metric, but still use Fahrenheit. Those are mostly Pacific islands, though. Speaking of Pacific islands, the federated States of Micronesia doesn't use SI. How about Canada. If they're so metric, then why was there a few years ago an overproof gin recall for Bombay sapphire 1.1litre(one *imperial quart* ) bottles. Don't even get me started on Canada's construction. Inches and feet used for just about everything. So much for there only being "literally THREE holdouts".
@@AMD1 like i said; "old people". when exactly were those road signs put up? the "official" standard can't stop people from using the system they're more familiar with. and i LIVE in canada, i know what our OFFICIAL standards are, and how in daily life we actually use both, depending on the circumstance. the bottle measures 1.1L. this just happens to be (approximately) equal to 1 imperial quart, but it's still measured in L or mL. there are literally THREE holdouts that OFFICIALLY remain on the imperial system. and you can be just as sure that in those countries metric measurements get used for certain things when people find it more convenient.
@@AMD1 I am sure all of us traveled to Belize to burn our house down.
Wait.... Can you really plug into an AC outlet the wrong way round? Thought the idea was it goes both ways so it doesn't actually affect functionality
Cont3mplation I never thought of this
It's AC it shouldn't matter
picolete what's an ac?
@@flippy-6725 ac is alternating current
@@flippy-6725 AC in this context is alternating current.
love it or hate it, the uk plugs are very safe but really hurt when you step on it at 3am when trying to eat the forbidden cheese
They are, but the euro ones are safe enough, nothing ever happens. Only really better thing is, that there are shutters, but you can find ones in germany too and they are hard enough to penetrate so babies don't stick things into it. Or you can buy cheap aftermarket covers. And if you are strong enough to penetrate them you should be smart enough not to do so. Or its simple darwinism.(But the house and/or room fuses will save you anyway). The UK plugs are really clumsy and as you mentioned, stepping on them is like lego on steroids.
Maximilian Dorge I've stepped on one today and now I just want to die
Problem: they’re too large. Compared to eu and us plugs.
@@MoxxoM All European sockets have shutters now and they are far safer than the UK sockets that can be easily opened.
I’m watching this on March 2, 2022 and we missed our chance. Thanks Uncle Vlad
2:02 I think this is the best plug. It has 220V,it doesn't matter which way you plug it in, you won't get electrocuted
It will rule us all.
That's the standard European plug.
@@quasii7 i know, i use it
Nah I prefer the British plug, you physically can't plug it in the wrong way and it's really safe (watch Tom Scott's video on it)
Yup, we have this one in most of Europe. I was really buffled some years ago that this is not a standard everywhere.
Tom Scott: sees this video *laughs in Great British
it's * *
Tom Scott is wrong: I have used all the four major standards, the Europeans have the best easily.
@@Musikur Haha no they don’t, and he’s isn’t wrong, the uk has the best and safest plugs and that is an objective fact whereas yours is just an opinion.
@@d6853 my man's wasn't talking about the safest one but the best and there's no way you think the UK adapter is more comfortable than the EU one
@@21bitconnect36 I said best and safest. The uk ones are better in every way. The fact they are safer makes them better but let’s ignore that. Our sockets have a on off switch, much better and more convenient. Our sockets are also flush with the wall unlike the awful and ugly as hell EU sockets. The Eu sockets are awful compared to uk (but yiu said adapters, a socket adapter allows a certain socket to work in another country, the adapter has nothing do to with how good the socket or plug is) Our plugs are also much less flimsy and fit more comfortably into outlets. (If they aren’t comfortable in your adapter then that’s the adapters manufactures fault and nothing to do with our plugs.)
The British 13A plug top is the safest and best in the world. Jam packed with safety features and individually fused appliances.
I had to approve everyone's charger adapter combo on a family trip to Italy. My dad didn't listen and fried his waterpick lol. If we made the switch I would swap to the europlug so quick, I mean you already get 240 service to your oven and dryer. The frequency issue is also kinda a big deal, although not for travel accessories.
international flight language, English....
No habla Japanese
I mean, if he flipped the mic right way 'round.
@gallya Because most of those Mandarin speakers are in one country whereas English speakers are everywhere.
because mandarin takes lot of time to learn, even at the pronouncement, and so spanish for remembering what are masculine or feminine things, and different verb words for different subject is quite annoying, especially since they usually simplify the sentence by removing the subject.
@gallya I think Mandarin is the most spoken per capita, a little thanks to China's ridiculous population, however, only 3 countries (not including mainland China) has Mandarin listed as an official language. So in terms of how widespread it is, and assuming foreign Mandarin-speaking communities are negligible, I don't think it is as widespread as English, French, Portuguese, etc...
Just do it the Russian way attach two wires to nails and hammer them in no adapter needed.
I know they don't do that
@@bhoot1702 It's true. The Russians use their fist, not a hammer
😂😂😂😂
When I was in Argentina my friend that lives their just cut the plug off and peaked the plastic off the wires and stuck them directly into the wall so he could get a water pump working to fill a swimming pool.
I do this all the time.For real. It works. Just don't touch it. Also not baby-safe. But who needs kids anyways.
Yes ...lets all agree on a standard plug and socket. The UK had this sorted years ago, the rest of the world just needs to conform to this standard from what i see.
The UK plug might be "super-safe" but it's bulky, ugly and impractical. Other plug standards are far more versatile and are safe enough. The US standard isn't optimal in any way but it is what it is and works. Most people just wanna go in with their lives and don't make a fuzz about plug standards.
Please not the UK chonk plug... How about the German plug?
"Some jackass!" I lost my shit lmao
My fellow Brits is it me or do all other plugs essentially look the same?
I know I really only see 2 adaptors 2 skinny pins or 2 round pins
I agree they do
yes
Lol no
Yes
I know I might sound arrogant, but where I live, Schuko is what we use, and it is flipping amazing. The plug goes in both ways (take note, America and UK), exists in both straight out and angled, uses pads and edge springs for grounding (no pin), fits in older, ungrounded sockets of the same shape (CEE 7/1), and the socket also allows Europlugs to be inserted. I love it.
@@akkesm But incompatible with the Swiss plug
Aren't UK plugs safer though?
Tom W I’m from the U.K. and believe the British plug is safest but it’s also the most bulky. For home use it’s great, plug something in and it’s guaranteed to stay in, but, if you’re travelling they’re a bit of a pain, bulky and the ground pin is so long and at right angles.
I'm glad I was born in Russia and thank Russia for having the European plugs. +1, they are MARVELOUS.
Nothing beats BS 1363 plug and socket design. The shutters, the half insulated pins, the strong, robust shape that prevents easy pulling out, the fuse in the plug
The european Schuko Stecker is one of the most safest socket
how so?
I started this vid and got the add of linus for pulseway lol, i was so confused that I could skip
*One plug to rule them all, one plug to find them, One plug to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.*
Don't mock our load shedding in South Africa 🤣🤣🤣
USB C
lol thunderbolt
A/B
USB plug....
Plugs and sockets are always easily rewired and changed but importing 110v appliances to 220v countries is a huge pain in the ass, requiring modifications or step-down transformers, that's why I think the voltage difference is far more annoying, despite being less commonly countered than plug incompatibility
Exactly! And people without a lot of technical knowledge could F up. My female neighbour without any practical knowledge imported a massage chair into Europe from the USA and got a passive adapter along (China doesnt give a shit about voltage differences) . It turned out the chair worked a lot faster and at the end caught fire under her ass from overvoltage. The worst part is that the chair was brand new.
The main reason for NA PD differences is due to history tbh. They started with 100-120vAC, not safer, just history. The issue comes when you want to power something over 1500w continuously as using Ohms law (Id rather not go into Reactive vs Capacitive loads) means you have 1500w max at 15A 100v. Which is why 230 is so much better in this regard due to being able to supply more power with lower current. Loads like ovens which can take up to 32A 100v would require a 64A breaker or more...current = heat=melted wires. Then, of course, there is the ability to supply 3 rows of houses with a single 3 phase 400vAC supply. You then split this into 3 single phase 230v supplies (400v 3ph is 230v phase voltage). Overall the infrastructure is easier and more practical, removing the need for multiple voltages.
Luckily most modern devices can use 100-240vs at 50-60 htz
Going from 110v to 230v means you need a "Step Up" Transformer.
@Animal Productions Exactly! Switching power supplies are great, they can take in anything from ~90 to 250V, from DC to 60 Hz without a bobble. And a well-made one even insulates the output with a transformer, making devices safer to use (even with forks). A lot of those power dongles/bricks people are complaining about have that capability, and the better ones even use minimal (micro-watt hours) power when plugged in but not used.
"... and even the cold war is a distant memory..." that didn't age well
I actually love the different electrical outlets. It lets people like me who are not visual artists who don't like to draw, to draw, and design our own sort of pictures. I have been drawing electrical outlets lately and designing my own visual arts out of them. This is only because of electrical outlets being different all over the world. I love it!
Rest of the world:Why cant you just be normal!! Amerika:Screams in Farenheit
Hey John, wanna see superbowl later? I have bought several inches of diet coke! No I can't! I have to do the thanksgiving. It sucks, there are so many fahrenheits outside!
Lmfaoooooo
I love how we have ounces for weight and fluid ounces for volume, 16 ounces being a pound, and 8 fluid ounces being a cup. Not fucking confusing at all Why couldn't I be born in Europe
America ≠ US
That is JUST the USA, and Linus is nos even from there, so, what are you talking about?
It's probably for the best there's a step in the way of accidentally putting 110V appliances in a 230V socket
All the electrical equipment I know off supports both with no issue.
@@mekowgli Try 110V hairdryer on 230V. (Have a fire extinguisher ready if you do.)
Well, that can be pretty easily solved by having e.g. different prong diameters so that you can put 230V appliance in 110V but not the other way around. 110V appliances that support 230V will just use the 230V diameters. (DC systems acually use this approach for high-amp 12V.)
Did that... Burn out the fuel//
Not in Brazil though! = 2 official voltages, 1 socket type.www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plug-voltage-by-country/brazil/
I like the plugs we have here in Switzerland. They‘re pretty compact, and there is also a 3-phase-version (5 pins), up to 15 amps iirc. For everything needing more power, all over europe there‘s the CEE system with plugs up to 3 phase, 230/400 volts, 125 amps! (Fun fact: cable with CEE125 plug is heavy enough to destroy a smartphone display, guess how I found that out...)
Ja, ganz toll. Fährst 150 km, egal in welche Richtung und dein toller Stecker fürs Bügeleisen oder den Fön passt nirgends in eine Steckdose. Na, merci vielmal ! 😂 Und die 3 x teuren Steckdosen/Lichtschalter von Feller sind hässlich wie die Nacht. Schaut aus wie Ostblock 1960. Die Italiener, Franzosen und Deutschen haben dagegen ne gigantische Auswahl an schicken Schalter- und Steckdosen-Serien, die länderübergreifend genutzt werden können, inklusive der Unterputzdosen.
Linus's hysterical jokes while ranting about this are gold.
In my opinion the European Schuko plug is the best: -it's safer -it can be pluged in both ways while still being grounded -normal plugs for no-grounded-needed things can also work in France and the bigger "ground"-plugs mostly have a hole so you don't need an adapter to play with your Blitzkrieg PC in France without being not grounded
Go look at Tom Scott's video about safest plugs, it's actually Britain's and Irelands
@@kerplunc9192 I said in my opinion I didn't say it's a fact
@@Stridsvagn69420 that's why I replied, as your opinion is wrong.
The UK plug is better than the european one. It has a shudder to lock the power entrypoints when nothing is plugged in and you are never going to put it in backwards either because it is easy enough.
@@kerplunc9192 no he failed on that one....made like a 8 point comment on that vid why XD
3:27 oh poor innocent beardless Linus.
Here in the UAE, all sockets are designed to be international. We mainly use the brick design with three pins but the sockets support all of them. This is because out of the 10M residents here, only 1M are actually from the UAE, the rest are expats.
Or slaves
@@castorchua Modern Paid Slaves but I can really go into depth or else I get executed (joke btw)
What is the _brick design._
That is fundamentally unsafe.
That's not true stop spreading misinformation, we are using the UK outlet.
This is why the USB plug was deigned to detach from the adapter for charging phone and tablet. USB plug is universal over the world as its name says.
I'm sure we'll see ever higher voltages and current, all negotiated by device and socket and then we'll be done.
There is nothing universal in USB. It is some 20 years old and how many versions there are? There are different charging voltages etc. It is a constantly changing standard. Consider that the basic electric sockets have remained same for about 100 years.
@@okaro6595 Oh you fuckin fruitcake....
and then you get to different manufacturers and phone charging... DashCharge, PowerDelivery, QuickCharge, VOOC, SuperCharge and whatnot... Wasn't it goal at some point to bring phones to use same plug (MicroUSB), so you do not need a different charger every time, like it used to be with Nokia 2 different plugs, samsung, motorola and whatnot each having their own. So when you happened to have phone that your friends or family did not, you had to rely on taking your charger with you. They brought most of them to use mini-USB back then and it changed to micro-usb over time, but still almost everyone had the same except if you were apple user... Now we are back in the position, that if your friends and family for example do noy have oneplus, then bybye to hoping to charge your phone in minutes if you do not bring your own charger.
@@okaro6595 Greetings buddy. Here's what's universal on USB. -The standard is the same, serial transmission of data, and is fully retrocompatible, down to version 1.0 -Charging voltages have changed FOR ELECTRONICS, but the port still delivers the same reliable 5V -The female plug is the same, and you can connect any USB cable to it, to connect whatever you see fit -Whether you go to America, Europe, Asia and the such, you're going to find the same USB ports, and if you buy a micro USB charging cable in China, it's most likely going to work on your american charger. Try the same for an A/C power cable Also yes, the charging voltages have changed, because users have become both increasingly impatient AND increasingly demanding on phone battery lifetime. Hence, engineers figured out a way to get more juice into the battery more quickly, without drastically modding the standard. The whole process is automatic too, you don't have to worry about your 12v 3A max turbocharger frying a Samsung S4, because it won't try to push more than the phone can take. Heck, my god damn turbocharger autosets for 5/6/9 and 12v without me doing more than plugging in a gizmo.
In Britain we use a wiring method in our houses called the ring main. It was introduced just after WW II to save on copper. Rather than run cables from the fuse box to each individual socket, we have a ring that visits each socket in turn. This means that rather than a 16A breaker for each socket, we have a 30A breaker per ring. This means British plus MUST have a fuse inside. This means there is a minimum size to maintain good separation across a blown fuse. Other safety requirements involve making the plug wide enough that it's difficult to get fingers behind a half-inserted plug. An earth pin is never an optional extra. Many Chinese imports in metals cases, don't bother with case earth because the target country does not mandate an earth. Which means that in other countries where the earth isn't option (think UK, where you cannot even insert a plug without an earth pin), these products are regarded as dangerous. I'd be for an international agreement on plugs, but such a standard would have to be a superset of all standards. I don't see this happening.
I think it also locks better in the socket, so you don't have to worry about pulling it accidentally. And some sockets have a moving plastic covering it for extra safety.
If I'm not mistaken the correct name should be "ring final circuit" or "ring circuit" in a shortened form if that's too long. But I can't really fault the plug design with fuses inside given that in a fault case like short circuit inside a lead would be very unlikely to trip a 30A breaker making a lot of nice smoke and heat, possibly setting stuff on fire. I wouldn't mind seeing the CEE 7/3 socket and CEE 7/4 plug used here replaced with something that enforces line and neutral pins. Ofcourse that last thing would assume that people actually wire them correctly which most definitely won't happen. We're supposed to have a standard here now, but given that plugs can be inserted either way I don't think most home owners really cared about worrying about that. So if it ever had to be replaced with new ones complacency would probably kick in and in daily life with consumer equipment you wouldn't notice a thing anyway. And I agree with your final sentiment, it'd definitely be nice but I don't see it happening anytime soon with countries and politics as it is now.
Trapdoors, fuses, switches You guys added $8 of crap to every one of your outlets Meanwhile, any Joe Average homeowner in the US can replace an outlet for 72 cents
Nowhere do they run a separate cable to each socket. They put the sockets in a chain and run a cable. The cable just does not go back to the consumer unit.
The European plugs aren't safer because of the smaller amount of metal exposed, but because every outlet has a big ass ridge that's as long as the pins on the plug, preventing any contact with the user.
2019 "no world wars and the cold war is a distant memory" 2020 "I wish I could travel" 2021 "I still wish I could travel" 2022 "I still can't travel and there's a pretty major war going on in Europe" How has it all gone so bad, so quickly
Oh, so you're ranting about power plugs? Please have someone recording you when you come to Brazil, it's gonna be beautiful to look...
Well, I do like the Brazilian standard, especially now that it's somewhat well spread.
@@driveslow48 The voltage is f*cked up tho, just look at the map. Why tf do we have 110 AND 220? Just chose one dammit.
I mean, we were the only ones to adopt the plug design that was created to be the WORLD STANDARD but of course no other country bothered to even pretend to care about it.
Haha Pakistan as well pretty much has every other outlet include multiple plug designs.
@@hueanao i live in Brazil, and my house have 110 and 220v.
Use our type of plug. It's the best - EVERYONE.
no the american one is bad ive been shocked by the home outlet 2 times
As a Brit I genuinely can say that.
Schuko >>>>
@@VincentGonzalezVeg I still find it weird that people are getting shocked, I have never been shocked by our outlits in the US and I use them all the time
@@NintenJoeGamer Well just about anything can be safe if you know tbe dangers and take precautions, but when it comes to mains power it's better to have sockets that can protect people from their own stupidity or ignorance, and tbe fact is that US sockets are terrible at that.
There are no wars...
The British plug standard is excellent. Sure its over-designed, and excessively safe..... oh no its just safe .... we use 240volts so one mistake and you are probably getting a finger blown off or going to hospital. I can gripe all day about a lot of things but the British power outlet system is superb. You literally have to have intent AND a good plug to just push it in. I think thats a good thing considering how high the stakes are.
Am I the only one who things the EU plug should be the standard? It's one of the few that works both ways (like USB-C versus USB-A) and has the safer plastic+metal pins. I do agree though that the UK has some nice safety standards, but it's a bit silly to have the fuse in the plug instead of in the outlet. Idiot manufacturers can just put a metal slab in there as a fuse, so I would prefer having the fuse in the socket. Also: please standardize meters, grams and Celsius first.
European F Type plug won't even let you touch the pins when you plug it deep enough into its native socket for being connected to the outlet, so it is pretty safe. Also sits very tight. And socket fits other European plugs that don't require ground pins.
Had to Google it, and hell no. I will keep the Australian plug, only goes in one way, isolation on the pins so you can't zap yourself.
Which EU plug? There's like eight of them.
If the fuse fails in the socket, (as in does not break, but shorts) it can be bad news as it's stuck in the socket, and UK sockets are also fused on the ring, so you have device safety at the fuse and ring safety on the fuse box.
I'd rather have a Trip Switch in the fuse box instead of having to replace individual fuses for separate plug or socket.
Oh yeah, i feel the pain. When i was in USA i had to use two adapters to charge my phone. I had British phone charger, plugged into a european adapter, which was then plugged into US adapter.
oh poor you. it's bad enough with just one why bring 2 into my mind
"Even the Cold War is a distant memory..." Oh, 2019, I miss you.
im not sure if it is the same in other countries but in australia, The earth pin on a plug is longer than the aticve/nutetral pins so that if the plug is not plugged in correctly it can strill cause the rcbo (circuit breaker and resdiental current decive combo) to trip if their there is a difference in power going out vs coming back.
"it's 2019 and their aren't any wars going on" yet
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There are 30 wars according to the UN. 29 of them use the type C and the odd one uses A/B.
Also he said world wars. There's plenty of regular wars going on.
Ahh yes, the almost North Korean war, well, hey, here's covid
Its now 2020 and the world is at war with something so small you need an electron microscope to see it.
The European plug is one of the most country used standard. But living in England, we need an adaptor.
Actually the Australian AC outlet is the most common in the world if you base the ranking based on the total number of AC outlets that exist in the world today. This is largely influenced by China adopting this as their standard.
Acutally, you don't need an adaptor in England. The EU plug will fit in Bitish socket's holes, you just need to push something in the earth hole to unlock the socket. Safety at its best :)
@@michaelharrison1093 Yes but they never maintain their fucking housing so I doubt half of those even work
what do you mean by "european plug"? Type C Plugs?
@@Federico84 Google Europlug. It's the CEE 7/16 that works everywhere in Europe.
we need more linus rants
I've thought about this too, and again, yeah, if the'd all agreed on one socket, one voltage & one frequency worldwide when electricity was "new" back at early 20th century, it would have made things much easier.
Change over to metric then we'll talk.
No problem for me since I'm to poor to travel overseas
It's 2020. What's overseas travel?