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Australian plugs are the best I've used for the following reasons (amongst others, mostly mentioned in TFA): two and three-pin (earthed) use the same socket; ir
by snt 5y ago
Australian plugs are the best I've used for the following reasons (amongst others, mostly mentioned in TFA): two and three-pin (earthed) use the same socket; irreversible (even the 2-pin plug is polarized); the flat pins allow a larger plug/socket contact area for current; small size; partially insulated power-pins stop shorts if stray conductors fall on partially-plugged in plugs.
(I'm not Australian and don't live there.)
- XorNot 5y agoThe sockets also go up to 32 amps while being seamlessly backwards compatible with lower amperages (via keying the ground prong). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/NZS_3112 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/NZS_3112
- jamil7 5y agoYeah I miss them. When we visited home last, my girlfriend (German) was amazed that we have a switch on them to turn each plug off and on rather than having to completely yank it out of the wall like with the Euro ones.