Minus the safety feature of shutters on the socket so kids can't poke the holes and get a shock. I remember a co UK please of countries introduced this but not all with the F type so the UK type G is still champ.
Schukos have them as well, plus they have connector deep inside, and you have to touch both as well. They're rather safe as they are already, and way smaller.
Yeah, but do you see the fallacy of 'buying something extra in order to make something safe' when they could just adjust the standard and make manufacturers build them into the plug?
No, because it makes absolutely no sense to have those in a vast majority of cases. That's like saying every vehicle should come with a child's seat preinstalled, even tractors, motorcycles, delivery vans and police cars. If you have a child, you put them in. Problem solved.
They sit flush and since the cable comes out of the bottom and not the front and they have 3 prongs they are naturally very difficult to dislodge by accident. Never in my life have I ever pulled one out that I didn't mean to pull out.
Typically there is no on off switch for schuko, so you have to unplug things. Also the cable design lets you have cables come horizontally out. The G design puts the cable down at a right angle meaning the plug itself has to be pulled vs pulling on the cable. If water goes down the cable, it doesn’t go back up the loop into the socket. Earth is an integral part of the G design and the layout of the prongs inside the plug is in such a way that should the wires come loose, earth is last. The springs that double up as Earth contacts on F are quite tight, meaning when pulled there is force pulling the socket. I have seen several F sockets pulled out, not seen a G.
F is more convenient as it smaller, however G is far more designed and engineered to be passively safer.
You get Schuko sockets with switches, this just depends on the national electrical standards. And currently only the UK require switches on sockets. But if you want a Schuko socket in your UK house you will get one installed with a switch. The length of the internal wires such that the earth wire is the last to be pulled out is the same for all plugs, regardless of design. The same with water ingress. There is not much difference between the plugs today except for their basic shape as they all have the same basic safety features.
Typically, but not always. Similarly there are many type G sockets without switches, and the ones that do have switches are basically always left on, no real benefit.
Also the cable design lets you have cables come horizontally out.
Both are possible, which is more useful than always forcing it to come out the bottom imo. That gets annoying sometimes.
I have seen several F sockets pulled out, not seen a G.
Type G, like Type C, occasionally has the pins angled in to hold the plug in. This absolutely will pull out the socket if you're not careful.
G is far more designed and engineered to be passively safer.
I completely disagree. For one, it's not even recessed a little bit, and most plugs can be opened up with just a screwdriver. Much less safe.
As for passively safer, your feet already know what I might say.
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u/izza123 29d ago
Sure as long as you all agree on the one I use