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Safest? The euro plug is a compromise, so that it will fit in a wide variety of existing sockets, and the standard version isn't even grounded. It's mostly for
by mhd 16y ago
Safest? The euro plug is a compromise, so that it will fit in a wide variety of existing sockets, and the standard version isn't even grounded. It's mostly for pretty small devices.
There's IEC 60906-1, but I don't think any country ever adopted that.
It's much easier to unify currencies than to change every existing socket. As most adapters solve most of the problems, and it's easy to manufacture country-specific devices, this isn't really a big deal in my opinion.
- hackermom 16y agoThe 6-7 versions are all referred to as Europlug for some reason. The CEE7/7 is the grounded "compromise" one. This is the one I implied, which is the most common grounded connector in Europe today.
- mhd 16y agoThe German Schuko with the French contact added? Never heard that given the europlug name, but that's probably due to me being German, where the old-fashioned name just stuck and only the CEE7/16 is given the "euro" prefix. Yeah, I was quite surprised that this is now a de facto standard, as most of my previous European travel took me to locations where another system was used (e.g. Italy, UK, Ireland).