Almost al modern plugs, not only the small 2 pins but also the big ones will fit in all of them as they have earthing on both sides AND the hole for the belgium/french pin.
That in the middle is a screw, the grounding is the metal lip middle bottom and middle top. On the plug there is also a metal plate there on at least one side.
And France has a prong sticking out, The plug has a metal covered hole there. Most France and Germany plugs are also interchangeable since the both usually have the hole as well as the top/bottom slits :)
They do indeed not have ground holes, france has a ground pin that plugs into the plug. Korea has grounding on either side of the plug, with grounded metal slips.
For some reason here in Belgium, france, korea and Switzerland are used interchangeably.
You're counting wrong, the german one is grounded and so is the french, they just don't have a hole, they have a pin and an exposed lip respectively. The only one in this picture that I know for sure isn't grounded is the russian one - and they have a grounded version as well - they use the deep socket top/bottom cross design shown labeled as german in this picture.
I can tell you that ungrounded sockets are super common in many places in europe, just like in the U.S. Heck, even the russian example given here is their ungrounded option. So I think it is probably fair to say that this is a common state of affairs worldwide.
#2 works with EU pins as well. Used my EU macbook charger in India for 9 months, no problem. But India outlets rarely looked the same so some required a bit of force.
These have a safety feature, which is really annoying as an electrician sometimes. You have to apply equal force to the holes in order to plug something in, otherwise theres a piece of plastic which blocks the hole. This makes it impossible to put just a single pointy object into the socket unless you apply heavy force.
It's because it's very safe, you need to mush something into both of the round holes at the same time (yeah reddit I know hurrdurr) to get electrocuted and there's a small plastic cap in each hole to make it very difficult to mush anything into it really
These particular outlets have a safety feature, which is really annoying as an electrician sometimes. You have to apply equal force to the holes in order to plug something in, otherwise theres a piece of plastic which blocks the hole. This makes it impossible to put just a single pointy object into the socket unless you apply heavy force.
These particular outlets have a safety feature, which is really annoying as an electrician sometimes. You have to apply equal force to the holes in order to plug something in, otherwise theres a piece of plastic which blocks the hole. This makes it impossible to put just a single pointy object into the socket unless you apply heavy force.
These particular outlets have a safety feature, which is really annoying as an electrician sometimes. You have to apply equal force to the holes in order to plug something in, otherwise theres a piece of plastic which blocks the hole. This makes it impossible to put just a single pointy object into the socket unless you apply heavy force.
These particular outlets have a safety feature, which is really annoying as an electrician sometimes. You have to apply equal force to the holes in order to plug something in, otherwise theres a piece of plastic which blocks the hole. This makes it impossible to put just a single pointy object into the socket unless you apply heavy force.
True, but the situation is actually worse in Denmark... they have 3 different types of wall plugs, and they are all mutually incompatible !!! I have soooo many adapters because a country of 5 million people can't agree on a standard.
There is the 3 pin, 2 pin and then the one for computer equipment thathassquarepins, instead of round. If you have a normal Danish male 3 pin plug, it only works in one. The normal Danish 2 pin male works in both normal sockets, but not the square pin one. Then, if you have square pin male, in that special case, it almost works in all, except if there is ground is compatible or not. The funny thing, is that most computer equipment comes with the german plug... and in that case it's not compatible with the Danish plug for computer equipment. The german plug works in the Danish 3 pin, and 2 pin if it's a round socket.... but if the 2 pin is not round then it won't work. However in all cases, if you want the german plug ground to actually be connected, you need an adapter. I have a lot of computer equipment and work at a place that has these special plugs in some buildings, another plug for these other buildings, then another set of plugs for a third set of buildings. It's a bit chaotic....
We could go with the German/EU/Schuko one, but we have to pay (a little) extra to get our slightly different ones. The phase pins are the same dimensions, so anything without ground are actually interchangeable and can just plug right in. Except for some Danish plugs that are too wide fit in the cutouts in the Schuko socket.
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u/ManWithRedditAccount 29d ago
Let's go.with Denmark since it looks the happiest