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Well, you also have one fuse in the plug and one fuse in the socket. Then you have uncertainty about whether the plug is fully plugged in. The whole system is f

Well, you also have one fuse in the plug and one fuse in the socket. Then you have uncertainty about whether the plug is fully plugged in. The whole system is finicky. And god help you if you step on a plug, because they always rest teeth up. I spent 15 years in the UK, and despite the fact that I take good care of my stuff, I've never had so much trouble with electrical stuff.

closewith 4y ago
UK sockets are fused (in the general case) - only the circuits and plugs are. Also, of all the standards, it seems to me that UK plugs are the easiest to be sure are fully plugged in?
- smilespray 4y ago
  In practice, UK plugs will glitch out if they are not asbolutely, positively all the way in. We're talking sub-mm precision here.
  - hnlmorg 4y ago
    I’ve never experienced that and I have kids who are constantly tugging on plugs.
  - closewith 4y ago
    This is wildly different to my experience. UK plugs are most stable I've ever used (at least residentially).
hnlmorg 4y ago
Sockets don’t have fuses. Only the plug. Sockets have switches but those are manually tripped and clearly visible when on or off. The fuses in the plugs only blow under exceptional circumstances too. The whole thing is really low maintenance in my experience (I’ve had more issues with US plugs so weird you experienced the reverse). My biggest complaint about U.K. plugs is that they’re not more universal. This leads to some international goods having really shitty adapters to slot their proprietary plug into a U.K. plug. Some of which are so bad that they completely undo all of the safety mechanisms built into the U.K. plug. As for the complaint about stepping on a plug, I’ve done that maybe once in my entire life time. Frankly if you can’t be bothered to tidy up your electrical cables then it’s really your own fault and not the flaw in the design of the plug.
- smilespray 4y ago
  I've used UK sockets with fuses. Even changed the fuse in some of them.
  - hnlmorg 4y ago
    It sounds like you were using some pretty non-standard sockets then. Maybe that was your issue.

closewith 4y ago

UK sockets are fused (in the general case) - only the circuits and plugs are. Also, of all the standards, it seems to me that UK plugs are the easiest to be sure are fully plugged in?

smilespray 4y ago
In practice, UK plugs will glitch out if they are not asbolutely, positively all the way in. We're talking sub-mm precision here.
- hnlmorg 4y ago
  I’ve never experienced that and I have kids who are constantly tugging on plugs.
- closewith 4y ago
  This is wildly different to my experience. UK plugs are most stable I've ever used (at least residentially).

hnlmorg 4y ago

Sockets don’t have fuses. Only the plug. Sockets have switches but those are manually tripped and clearly visible when on or off. The fuses in the plugs only blow under exceptional circumstances too. The whole thing is really low maintenance in my experience (I’ve had more issues with US plugs so weird you experienced the reverse). My biggest complaint about U.K. plugs is that they’re not more universal. This leads to some international goods having really shitty adapters to slot their proprietary plug into a U.K. plug. Some of which are so bad that they completely undo all of the safety mechanisms built into the U.K. plug. As for the complaint about stepping on a plug, I’ve done that maybe once in my entire life time. Frankly if you can’t be bothered to tidy up your electrical cables then it’s really your own fault and not the flaw in the design of the plug.

smilespray 4y ago
I've used UK sockets with fuses. Even changed the fuse in some of them.
- hnlmorg 4y ago
  It sounds like you were using some pretty non-standard sockets then. Maybe that was your issue.