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Note: type E looks like it could be polarized, but it's not. It's also annoying to use when you have a big plug as it often blocks two outlets.
by Gabrys1 3y ago
Note: type E looks like it could be polarized, but it's not. It's also annoying to use when you have a big plug as it often blocks two outlets.
- dfox 3y agoThe solution for right-angle plugs blocking adjacent sockets are angled sockets. For a correctly designed appliance the polarization should not matter and as today most appliances have CEE E/F plugs which are compatible with inherently not polarized Schuko there is not much space for designing it wrong. Across the EU there is a bunch of various normative and ad-hoc standards about which pin should be the live one in Type E socket. And well, one would expect that there are only three ways how that can be standardized including don't care, but no, there also exist standards that say “always on left, even if the socket is upside down” (the reasoning is something along the lines that if a child sticks a 100mm nail into the socket it is going to be into the right hole)