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They definitely shouldn't be.... IANA electrician, but as far as I am aware UK regulations require separate power and lighting circuits and a proper distributio
by julian_t 12y ago
They definitely shouldn't be.... IANA electrician, but as far as I am aware UK regulations require separate power and lighting circuits and a proper distribution board with RCBs.
And while our plugs may be clunky, I kind of prefer them to the wobbly, spark emitting two-pin plugs that I seem to come across in the US...
- MrBuddyCasino 12y agoObviously the US plugs are the worst, but thats the price for being the first. PAL was better than NTSC, too.
- talideon 12y agoThey needn't have been so bad: one small change--tilting the pins at an angle--and they could've been mechanically sound like Aussie ones.
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoI'm not sure the order these were conceived, but it may be that there was already a plug with a similar configuration. http://www.jmjwebsitedesign.com/cdpro/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/nema1-1024x648.jpg http://www.jmjwebsitedesign.com/cdpro/wp-content/uploads/201...
- talideon 12y agoThat's some panoply of configurations! It's a pity the most common configuration is the worst of them.
- theandrewbailey 12y agoNEMA 5-20 is exactly that. It's somewhat less common, due to the fact that it implies a 20 amp supply. Most plugs and sockets use the 15 amp version.
- talideon 12y agoAussie plugs are more like NEMA 11 plugs: the prongs are angled to form two sides of a triangle.
- theandrewbailey 12y agoYou mean NEMA 10?[0] All I can dig up for NEMA 11 are motors. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#NEMA_10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#NEMA_10
- talideon 12y agoYou are indeed correct.
- Symbiote 12y agoBeing first is no excuse! Britain (and empire) used to use an older design, the current design was introduced in 1947. India (and other places) still use the older standard, BS 546. That's also used for things like theatre lighting in the UK.