You heard me.
Posting Supreme leader of all plug design, the humble, explosion proof BS1363.
All you shit-tier countries who don't use this should consider yourselves inferior.
Sadly true.
>Jealous?
>>59437663
looks a bit sad
>>59437663
>plugs look like surprised chinamen
No. Not really faggot.
>>59437663
It's inferior in the internal design.
>>59437663
y is outlet so sad?
>YFW Americans have to physically pull the plug out of the wall like a savage to turn off an appliance.
>>59437547
No need to be snooty because your country is so poor it cannot afford a centralised fuse box due to the cost of copper wire.
>>59437547
I fucking love /pol/ sometimes.
>>59437547
>>59437663
This is why you aren't a super power
>>59437811
odd you should say that, because china adopted the Australian style plug, making it the most popular in the world!
>>59437875
>implying we don't have both
Plug Fuses are for the cable matey, not the mains.
Breaker for the mains
Fuse for the plug
fuse for the appliance.
m8...
>>59437960
>plug pulled out 5mm
>live wire exposed
brilliant cletus
Take a look at the insulation bases on the OP.
You've been cucked again my burger friend.
>>59438017
but you cannot deny that was the original reason for adopting such a huge plug after ww2.
>>59437960
>no off switch
>>59437547
Can I build a bullet and explosion suit out of them?
>>59438020
>no earth/ground
No wonder all our polish electricians are shit-tier.
>>59438020
that's a weak ass plug
>>59438107
True.
But its 2015! Why are we still talking about this?
>>59437663
>The result of stepping on your plug
>all inferiors must be jealous!
>>59438111
That's right, faggot
You got a problem with that?
>>59438111
Energy is almost free in the states Mohammed.
Report in faggot. $1.50 for gas right now in Iowa>>59438111
any country that doesn't have switches on their outlets is a third world country
>>59438191
its 2015, why are you selling appliances without a plug? byo plug? what a rip off! yes i know you do it!
>>59437960
Literally disgusting
>>59438020
Why even bother with a plug? Why not just stick a fork in the outlet, wrap wire around the handle and then connect it to the appliance.
>>59438336
That was pretty much over by the mid 90's.
It's 2015!. Why are we still talking about this?
>>59438391
They don't fit up your tight ass properly
>>59437547
>can only be plugged in one way
>only providing 110 volt
>supreme
pleb
>Hydraulic compensation passthrough
>Can be hooked up at any angle
>26vac
>also transits cat5, coax, rs232
>two HD video streams
>QD
Burtonfags on suicide watch.
>>59438166
Says the man with 110V mains
>>59438467
You sound a little upset.
>>59438020
>>59438475
these guys know what's up
>>59438488
we have 1-4 240v plugs in the house for welders and shit.
Wait ... how do you guys run welderS?
Like, just plug it into any wall socket?
>>59438475
Ahmed, BS1363 is 230-240 50Hz-60Hz master race.
We also have an earth.
We also have fucking insulation at the base of the pins so you don't accidentally electrocute yourself if the plug is slightly out of the socket you fucking cuck.
We know you islams have a deathwish, so I'll leave you to your shit plugs mate.
>>59438020
>>59438158
we have plugs with a ground in europe, these are just used for light electric devices (radios , tv's)
>>59438093
As a child I electrocuted myself accidentally touching the live wires. I was recharging the battery for my remote control car.
It made me tougher, stronger, and more powerful than I had been before. And also less trusting -- a heightened sense of danger --- the survival instinct instilled into my violently shaking electrocuted arm.
This is the secret to American power. We are taught at a young age that death is coming and you must pull your own electrocuted body away from the outlet. Mom and Dad aren't home. You must fend for yourself or DIE.
>>59437875
Jesus fuck, now that's a shitpost
>>59437547
>this thread again
>>59438093
afraid of guns, forks, and now this?
>>59438626
>we have 1-4 240v plugs in the house for welders and shit.
Yes.
I weld in the bathroom, while I'm taking a shit.
Fuck you.
PS. the cord runs in from the hallway because we aren't stupid enough to have plugs in the actual bathroom. Faggot.
>>59438295
my electric bill was like 100/month back when I grew pot with a 2000W light setup.
Now I use LED's and it's like $30
>>59438767
>not having plugs in your bathroom
No wonder so many Muslims are heading for to your nation. It's already a third world country so they don't have to adapt to much.
>>59437960
Been using this all my life, never a single problem. Conductors are polarized and has a ground wire (earth for you Britfags)
BTW our AC is 60HZ so we can run clocks on it.
>>59438652
>thinks it needs a third pin on the plug to have ground
>doesn't realize its to prevent the bongers from killing themselves by flipping the phases
stay away from anything electrical m8
you are going to hurt yourself
>>59438677
>I was electrocuted at a young age
Brilliant. Really showing the superiority of the US there cletus.
Tell me this. If it made you stronger and better, why didn't any of you rednecks come up with the design quality that is BS1363?
Checkmate, cuckfag.
PS. Notice the slack in the earth/ground (green/yellow, americans) That's so that the appliance is still ground if the wire gets yanked out, the live and neutral get pulled out first.
>>59438767
We have special plugs in the bathroom that will shut off instantly in the event of a short. You could drop a toaster in the bathtub and the toaster wouldn't even break.
>>59438020
Fucking gross. Two dildos in a bed.
>>59437547
it's at times like these i like to remember we have guns and they can't have butter knives.
>>59438767
why wouldn't you have plugs in the bathroom?
>>59439110
brits need their hands held
>>59439020
>flipping phases on AC
this guy
>>59439020
Flipping the phases? .. Dude, go to sleep. There is literally shit falling out of your mouth.
>>59439110
We are capable of going through our 20 minute morning routine without the need for a fucking waffle iron in the bathroom.
That's why.
>>59439047
Looks like some pussy shit for men who can't be trusted to plug in a lamp.
Also: no guns
Danger and death cull the herd. UK protects and babies --- allowing the weak to thrive. Our bottom percentile of the IQ bracket is constantly being killed off
Dangerous plugs are eugenic
Safety plugs are dysgenic
>>59438767
>PS. the cord runs in from the hallway because we aren't stupid enough to have plugs in the actual bathroom. Faggot.
Are you faggots that afraid of wall sockets? Have you even discovered CFGI outlets or do you just have loose bits of hot metal hanging inside your shit?
But seriously, having the plug outside the bathroom doesn't make the appliance any less likely to fall into water. Or do you all splash about in the tub so much that it's dangerous?
>>59437547
British plugs are great. That three pin mechanism with an Earth and a live wire is safe as houses. I'm half frog and the plugs are fucking shit in France.
British plugs are the best.
>>59439286
>appliance fall into water
See:>>59439212
>>59439256
Also: no butter knifes
>move into house from 50's with m8s
>hmm lots of two prong plugs here
>check circuits
>mfw nothing is grounded
>>59438677
>>59439047
Just let the britcuck have this. His country hasn't been relevant since WW2. If having nice plugs makes him happy, then let him have it. He needs this more than we do, brother. We're Americans. We have plenty going for us as it is.
>>59439329
I mean, I know Brit plugs are big, but you can fit a whole other Earth inside them? Damn.
>>59438488
The panel gets 240, it's dropped to 120 for the outlets inside the house but you can pull 240 for electric clothes dryers or water heaters.
>>5943904
literallly socialism & theft
>forcing 3rd parties to bear the costs instead of the rightful party
>go pay some welfare to niggers & muslims
>>59439065
...that is a GFCI.
we've got AFCI, we've got locking, we've got three phase, we've got explosion proof.
>>59439110
>putting electrical appliances into a room that gets filled with water vapour and could very easily flood
Not surprising from a country that considers esports gamers as atheletes and pizza a vegetable
>>59439478
We can fit our entire empire inside them
;_;
>>59439340
>Not using electric razors
>Not toasting while you shower
>Not having general utilities for non-standard usage for a room
Sounds like shit, m8.
Take a look American plugs are simple and small so they can be put into arrays for easy plug access
Adding a bunch of fancy shit makes these over engineered European shit shows for plugs completely unpractical
>>59439611
>mfw a 3 pronged euro plug fucked an american shitplug
brilliant!
>>59438677
>electrocuted
>electrically executed
>still alive to post
>>59439611
holy shit! no wonder your country is a shithole!
>>59437547
*trips, unintentionally tipping fedora*
>>59439586
Electric toothbrushes are the shit yo
>>59439611
Funny looking game cube
>>59439647
>>Not using electric razors
>not owning a beard
>not wet shaving
Sounds like shit, m8.
No wonder Denmark is always happy
>>59438020
step you plug game up poland
>>59437865
Do appliances in Australia not have off buttons?
>>59439256
I bet you believe in god too, you fucking faggot
>>59439647
>british women heat up their hair iron over a fire in the bathroom
top kek.
>>59439732
Electric toothbrushes and other hygiene appliances are safe to use near water famalam
>>59437547
Agreed, plugbro.
>>59437547
>explosion proof
literally never had an outlet explode, never heard from anyone who has
>>59439690
Oh wow. Much amaze. super awesome.
I wish we had.....oh oh ... look at what I found.
Fucking retard. Individually switched too. None of your american herd mentality here.
>>59439586
>what is ventilation
>>59439470
kek
>>59438300
>not wiring outlets to a lightswitch
pleb desu senpai
>>59439752
I own a beard.
I keep it mounted on my wall for lumberjack emergencies.
>>59438677
bro you got shocked, that was more than likely no more than 12V and little to no amps, give us a call when you've taken 240.
>>59439794
The majority of appliances have vampire draw, or can only go to standby. Having a switch on the plug negates this without having to remove the plug
>>59439853
>ventilation will stop a flood
>>59439802
>american women heat up their house after causing a fire in the bathroom.
dank kek
>arguing about the plug and no the voltage that runs through it
I like the standard 120VAC plug as much as the next North American, but there's no arguing about how the uk's 240 is more efficient
>>59439794
>turning it off at the appliance
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standby_power
>>59439846
How big is that thing?
That plug design doesn't look space efficient
All I want for keksmas is this thread screencap'd or saved somehow!
>>59439846
m8 that thing is massive for only 5 plugs, I would bash that shit over your head to knock some common sense into you but it would probably kill your buck tooth ass
>>59438652
>needing extra safety when pulling out a what is it you all got 110, fucking kek.
>>59439935
outlets in a bathroom are supposed to be like 4 feet by code
>>59439935
What kind of bathroom flooding do you have over there where it can reach wall sockets?
Are all your doors airtight?
>>59439759
>America has angry plugs while others has funny/happy looking plugs
Every time
>>59439869
>>not wiring outlets to a lightswitch
mfw
>>59439586
>>putting electrical appliances into a room that gets filled with water vapour and could very easily flood
that's what GFIs are for. Same goes for the kitchen.
So you don't electric toothbrushes or razors and girls don't use irons and dryers?
>>59439633
...ahhh dude now you've made me sad.
>>59439586
GFI = ground fault interruptor. Required outlet type in US for outlets within 6 feet of a sink or bathtub, works great in the water closet matey.
>Inciting national hate based solely on plug sockets
I love you all.
>>59440044
>>59440053
>retard kid decides to fuck his bathroom up with a shower
>sprays it all over the wall and appliances
>appliances catch fire because americans cannot into standby switches
>entire family burns to death
>>59440053
>flood
>airtight
>water
>airtight
Literally retarded.
>>59440076
BECAUSE WE ARE NOT HAPPY.
>>59440187
They're already dead because the retard kid found the assault rifle in the kitchen drawer.
>>59440114
>So you don't electric toothbrushes or razors and girls don't use irons and dryers?
No, I use a straight razor and the women here aren't allowed to shower.
>>59439977
>>59439928
>>59437865
>hes so poor that he turns things off to save 2$ a month
Jewish?
Allow me to educate you all on the greatest piece of electrical engineering in the known world: The Tap-A-Line multi-plug power strip, made in God's own backyard of America. (pic related)
It was patented in 1954 (http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2680233.pdf), and a grounded version was patented in 1972 (http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3668601.pdf). It was originally designed and manufactured in Milwaukee, Wi. It was an extruded plastic strip, that had two brass strips inserted in the extrusion. Plugs could be inserted into the entire length of the strip. They were available in lengths up to 36" long. They had a #16 power cord on them.
The firm was re-located to Pompano Beach, Florida in the later 50's. Because of Big Government meddling, it never received U/L approval. Cowards, too meek to see the light of Progress and Industry!
>>59439586
Wait 220fags cant have appliances in the bathroom, but they still feel the need to make these threads?
>>59440337
Wont work on anything with a ground plug m8
>>59440187
Why are you under the impression that spraying a little water on the outside of something electrical will suddenly make it burst into flames? That's the kind of hysterical nonsense that only a women would think.
>>59440187
>I can't into GFCI
Our bathroom plugs are breakers, m80. You can take a bath with a toaster and be fine.
>>59440201
Most shit that holds water is also airtight. Anything airtight is watertight.
I know, it's hard being a Bong.
>>59440334
>he doesn't realise the jews who dominate his country and his people worship could buy his entire family with the change in their pockets
>>59439759
Japan = Pre-war USA
>>59440187
>doesn't install GFIs in kitchen and bathroom
You're asking for it
>>59440334
More about reducing pollution, if every home does it that's a lot less electricity being used
>>59440337
That looks unsafe as fuck, how do you even ground shit with that?
>>59439955
>Britons can't even handle hot metal without burning everything down
Is it really just a country full of downies? Is that why they take your knives?
>>59440403
Big Government at it again!
>>59440337
god damn gotta love Milwaukee,
Milwaukee and Klein, electricians best friends.
>>59440351
We can, and do.
>>59440334
>he's so lazy he wastes money and resources for no reason
>$
No. We keep the roll of dollars next to the toilet for wiping our arses.
>>59440337
Jesus fucking christ.
May as well just electrify a giant plate and have wires with magnets on the end......
>>59440277
Right next to the butter knives
Where do you keep your butter kniv-
oh wait
>>59437547
>>>/g/
Also y'all are fighting harder than /g/ when it comes to this shit.
I wish we used better plugs, but UK plugs are so fucking huge.
Also 120VAC a shit, 240VAC is more efficient and has less losses.
>>59437547
I thought we already settled this?
just look at your stupid fucking plug, i bet you step on those all the time!
>>59440403
>A grounded version was patented in 1972
Learn to read, Deonte
>>59437547
This belongs on /g/, but I'll bite
>fuse in plug
circuit breaker outlets exist, and I can see no reason why they don't just put in circuit breakers instead
Also those things are like lego blocks on steroids.
>>59437663
A slight improvement compared to the British design, but the plastic sleeve is stupid and the angled pins make them more expensive in cheaper productions
>>59437960
120V garbage
exposed live wire
polarized pins even though it's fucking AC
>>59438020
plastic sleeve, no ground. Though that standard has been adapted with grounds
>>59438475
grade A shit right here, assuming the outlet is indented so that you can't touch any of the wires.
>ground pin in the wall so that you can't cut it off
Germans are based as fuck
>>59438482
>unused
Come back when you have adoption
>>59438729
Left is best. You can plug it in any which way
>>59439047
That's nice, but fairly easy to avoid if the manufacturer so chooses to (dunno how britbongs enforce this if it's even enforced)
>>59439611
Good except for the plastic sleeve.
>>59440478
>That looks unsafe as fuck, how do you even ground shit with that?
Didn't use grounds in the 50s
>>59439840
>war
>on American clay
top kek
Britain on the other hand...
>>59439110
But anon they do, only in the shower.
i stuck a key in an electrical socket once and boy did that h
>>59440337
You could just fill that thing from one end to the other with a dozen, 1000 watt growlights!
>>59440187
>UK doesn't have GFIs in their kitchens
what the fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcqzsMzM8y8
>>59439633
Self burn!
>>59440507
Patent that shit.
>>59438111
we have some like that
>>59439928
>>59439977
We just don't give a shit
>>59440337
All they would have to do is add a ground "Rail" to the fucking design and it would work fine.
Would be a bit more complex of course but shit would work fine...
I love how no Americans have posted their plug because they see this thread for what it is: retarded.
>>59438677
You gave yourself an electric shock.
If you electrocuted yourself, you would be unable to post here
>>59438436
>>59438391
>>59438111
>>59438093
>in the united caliphate they applaud the fact the have no power over there own power
I have more outlets in my bath then you have in your house.
>>59440629
thats really fuckin ugly desu senpai
>>59439759
GER-KOR-EU and Italy are best
>>59440439
hell we got AFCI
>>59440507
the CA and Euro just got rekt. just wait until every neighbor of yours is a fucking Muhammad and we'll see how great the pound is :^)
>>59440716
they make several different styles
>>59438020
>Euro plug sockets
>Worse plug socket design on Earth
pick both
>Can break it by stepping on it
>no Earth wire
>comes out of the wall easily
>usually no off switch on socket
>>59440565
suicide showers are so common in South America
>tfw only two prongs
A third world country basically
>>59440697
Speaking of retarded.
>>59437960
>>59440791
holy shit kek
>>59440768
just as well
>>59437547
Why don't we all have a universal plug? I've never left the US so I don't know if there's a real difference of not.
>>59440791
Jesus weeps, kek
>>59440187
I stayed in a hotel in france once, where the shower sprayed straight at the wall on the other side of the room, completely missing the tub/shower curtain.
Even with the damn thing tilted as far down as it would go.
>>59438767
>not having GFCI outlets in bathroom, kitchen and outside
>>59440724
My google results make it seem like G/AFCI outlets are externally the same, I just know GFCI is what we called plugs with the red buttons. No idea if that's a holdover or not.
>>59438677
>>59439719
>>59440700
I'm almost positive that pretty much every American male has shocked themselves unplugging something at some point.
It's actually not going to kill you. It's probably more scary than it is dangerous.
My ameribro's description is pretty accurate too. That's usually how it happens.
>>59440976
In some European countries they have GFCI breakers at the panel or similar device.
>>59440337
Interesting
http://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Tap-A-Line.html
Governments care more about system uptime than the lives of cleaning ladies?
>>59440976
>united kalifate thinks they're first world
>>59437547
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
>>59441176
>English """"Men""""
>>59439010
don't talk to me about clocks burgerfriend.
>>59441176
Sweet mother of God, you could land planes on that power strip.
England, what are you compensating for?
>>59440791
That terrifies me
>>59440011
>4 plugs
>counts 5
I am once again embarassed to be american, europe please adopt me, I am liberal too!
lol just kidding, weather it is 5 plugs or 4 euros are cucks
>>59441298
>>59441342
I-I'm just trying to participate with info, lads. Plug banter, please.
>>59439010
>>59441313
Not useing metric time system that runs of 50 hz power. Kek.
But seriously clocks haven't ran 60 hz power timing for a very long time now,
>>59438093
We want to leave the possibility to shock yourself.
Its how we weed out the dumb fucks.
You either learn or get shocked.
>>59441526
Pizza is a vegetable.
>>59441176
>I am patriotic about britain because of our plugs
lol british people are such cucks
if you fuckin died from a plug might as well be dead anyway
>>59440791
>lettter african engineer your appliancies
bunch of post-apartheid cucks
>>59441562
I think you mean that pizza was counted as having one serving of vegetables, not as being a vegetable.
>>59441654
don't hit them while they're down
those filthy islanders have it bad enough already
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9217620/St-Georges-flag-is-a-racist-symbol-says-a-quarter-of-the-English.html
>>59441969
>>59441901
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45306416/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/t/pizza-vegetable-congress-says-yes/
>>59441654
Im sure you're a real alpha male :3
>>59441901
Nah, Pizza Hut or somebody lobbied to get their pizza classified as a vegetable so they could legally take food stamps for pizza and get that government money.
I think they made the claim that their pizza was more than 50% vegetable oil or something.
>>59441416
it''s called a 4 because there are 4 current carrying conductors and one ground.
it's like in 1/2 inch EMT you can have 8 CCC's but grounds aren't considered CCC's so you could cram 40 grounds in the EMT and it would be perfectly legal
asdf
>>59441176
Fucking hell, that's a huge plug. Why do they need it so big, Ours are pretty small and space efficient
>he thinks US plug is angry
>>59441969
You are aware that your country outlawed the confederate flag a couple of months ago, right?
>>59442131
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/05/now-its-racist-to-ask-immigrants-to-learn-english-or-abandon-dodgy-imported-election-practices/
>>59442319
So that if you step on them, it kills you.
They can't shock you, so they evolved and found new ways of taking prey.
>>59442361
>outlawed
i don't think you know what that word means
>>59442361
That is illegal in itself though.
>>59441176
>using a 1000v rated double insulated screwdriver to open a dead plug.
>>59441654
>I am patriotic about the USA because of our guns
lol Americans are such cucks
if you fuckin died from a gun might as well be dead anyway
>>59439759
Japan plugs look like vertical slant eyed gooks.
>>59442531
>comparing fucking wires to firearms
makes sense for you i guess, they're probably both prohibited items
I have taken a direct shock from an exposed 500V live wire on a dock-outlet used to supply energy to 60+ FT yachts.
The dock master's office lights flickered.
The biggest shock any britbong has taken was their recent discovery that they are an irrelevant nation.
>>59438652
What the fuck are you on about? The only positive your plug has over europlug is that it's polarized, meaning you have extra protection when handling live, open light sockets. That's pretty much it.
90% of what you plug in these days gets stepped down to 12v or 5v. USB power delivery over a type c connector can deliver up the 100 watts. Standardize world wide on it for most things while the few large items that need more current continue to use whatever weird plug and voltage is in common use locally.
>>59437663
>Not having a different shaped pin for ground
Absolutely disgusting. Its shit
>>59442653
did a hunk of meat get blown out of you.
>come to /pol/
>see this
>201 replies
top fucking kek
>>59439195
>>59439201
He's right. One of the pins is the phase, the other is neutral. You can flip them with the europlug.
>>59442804
the only time i will agree with with a mexican.
>>59442825
I have no feeling in my left index and middle finger, paramedics were called. Though no ER was needed.
>>59437547
>superior plug
So poor they can't afford a proper star topology and instead rely on fucking ring mains.
Real safe britfags
>>59439611
They used to have this in Italy as well, now they have regulare europlugs.
>>59442361
Ssshh Tadgh. Let's just watch as they eviscerate one another.
>>59439759
>Denmark
>>59443138
How does this disprove what I said?
>>59442962
so do British houses not have breaker boxes?
>>59442951
fuck man i was apprenticing under an oldfucker that got hit with 480 one day, chunk of meat shot out of his thigh.
If white people had never existed, I wonder how many millennia it would have taken before niggers invented electrically powered machinery.
>>59437547
To hell with that fancy bullshit, just stick some metal in a hole. One metal for electricity in, one metal for electricity out. Fucking yuropoors and your "safety" features. "Earth" even sounds like hippie nonsense.
>>59438300
>any country that doesn't have switches on their outlets is a third world country
Indian confirmed. Your mind can't fathom that real first world countries are so rich we don't need to turn our electronics off. I leave my A/C and TV running all day.
Enjoy your rationed national resources
>>59437547
Murrica
>>59443461
I think it would take them atleast 1000 years, maybe more.
>>59438609
Fuck off shit cunt gypsies
>>59437547
You literally have a "Shavers Only" plug. The most cucked shit ever.
>>59439759
>Straya cucked by the chinks into having switches on their plugs.
What's the point
>>59443519
You don't need ground if you isolate your appliances desu
Isolating your bath boiler, heater or stove sucks though.
>Euros have to pay more than 20cents/kWh for their electricity
LeL
>>59442828
/g/ banned it for getting posted too much. Guess OP is going to try to see how long it will take /pol/ to tire of it.
>>59443400
It supports it
>>59438677
Someone edit this post into the Spurdo boger face picture.
>>59443624
Never seen that thing in my life
>>59443763
So you can have something plugged in and not using power all day erry day, like a toaster for example.
>>59443851
Indeed. British plugs are polarized and europlugs ain't.
>>59443138
>hot
>>59443820
Not all Europeans. Serbian electricity is under 5 eurocents a KWh.
>>59439759
Europe's plugs are all way too fucking big and wastes of space.
>Italy
Get your shit together with your retarded ass plug
>>59443820
Twenty cents? Fuck that! In Georgia we pay between a nickel and a dime depending on the season.
>>59443410
They do, but the current carrying wires come from two separate paths so they can use smaller wires for a higher current. Until one path fails. The circuit still works, but is then overloaded.
>>59443919
Looks like a high voltage one, I've seen similar ones in Australia
Did someone just divide by zero? Explain this.
>>59444025
You must feel good, Serbian bro. We pay 4,9 cents/kWh here in Quebec.
>>59444010
>Naw man that's the juice
>>59444025
>Not all Europeans. Serbian electricity is under 5 eurocents a KWh.
Southeast US - $0.11/kWh and $0.73 per therm for natural gas
>>59444082
Wtf power company are you on? Georgia power? I'm on Duke power and we pay more than that, pisses me off.
>>59444082
No wonder that most of their stuff have dozens of switches on them.
>>59437663
Oh me sucha sada prug. My aprug penis aso smarll
>>59444189
Wrong Georgia.
>>59437865
Wall switches can be connected to wall sockets
>>59444099
Sideways prong on right = 30A 120
Sideways prong on left = 20A 120
Both sideways = 15/20A 240
Just off the top of my head. Probably wrong.
>>59444163
Yes, those are Georgia Power rates. Which makes running my air conditioning today not so bad.
>>59444099
Here you go
>>59444305
It's a nice 25 outside right now.
>>59444305
You guys are getting a new nuclear plant down in Augusta - pretty sweet
>>59440791
Is that meant for committing suicide? Or are they just stupid as fuck
>>59443445
It was raining at the time, my conclusion is that I was hit by the live-wire's conduction through very nearby water. I was tossed back a couple feet though at least.
A few years later I was out boating with my pa and my console was struck by lightning with me attached, luckily the boat was well grounded.
I have had a lucky life.
>>59444106
It's a pain when we are forced to import power, otherwise it's great.
>>59444341
They look so...happy, even with one black eye.
>>59444106
It's also subsidized and you pay the highest taxes on the continent
>>59444421
Just in time. There are several old coal plants that need to be retired and would be costly to replace with current standards.
>>59444659
South Carolina here - we're getting some new nuclear plants and reactors too. Rest of the country needs to catch the fuck up
>>59444446
It's an inline hot water heater. They're always installed as fucked up as possible. Even the places I stayed at in Tanzania had better wiring than Peru does.
Can one declare war on Cupertino?
>>59445160
It's missing a fedora. So much faggotry in a picture
>>59443138
when I plug this in either way it just works fine
>>59439047
>why didn't any of you rednecks come up with the design quality that is BS1363
The BS1363 standard was established as a part of post WWII reconstruction,
We didnt need to do that in the USA so the older standard persists here.
>>59438020
We have those shitty plugs, too.
>>59445732
Careful you don't cut yourself with that sick edge, bud. ;^)
>>59442531
>if youre dead then you might as well be dead
????
>>59439759
Japan's look like the radiation turn their horizontal slant eyes to vertical.
>>59443264
do you stick the key in the socket?
>ITT Eurocucks try to defend their goofy bulky and non-standardized electrical plugs running at too high voltage and too low a frequency
If your plugs don't look like pic related than you're living in a failed state. You would think Europe would have been smart enough to decide on one type of plug for the whole continent like North America, but they didn't. Have fun with your cuck-adapters and poor ergonomics Eurofags.
>>59441550
>>59438093
Don't Brits have 220 for regular household current? No wonder they're so scared of getting zapped.
>>59438295
$1.64 in southern MO
>>59446598
>too low of a frequency
we don't live in the CRT television times anymore burger, so a lower frequency is better since it carries further
>>59438907
I live in the south, always have my AC at a cool 60 even when I'm not home, and all my shit is always running including my high end 1200w supply computer. Just touching that 100 dollar mark myself.
>>59446974
Are you retarded? A lot of industrial equipment relies on 60Hz. No surprise Ahmed, your continent doesn't actually produce anything anymore. Good luck finding three-phase power in Europe even.
>>59446409
Pretty much, yeah.
The black shit is residue from the blasting media used.
>>59447173
>industrial equipment in the US relies on 60Hz
It's almost as if it was designed with your grid in mind...
>>59446974
>a lower frequency is better
Enjoy having to use bulkier transformers and a frequency that's less accurate for keeping time.
>>59447173
Have you never left your safe space?
Almost no industrial equipment in Europe is USA made.
>>59441562
Oh shit... is this American serious?
OH?? that's not an American, it's Britfag???
>>59447418
Ideal frequency falls at around 56 Hz iirc.
>>59447173
>>59447362
europe has 3-phases 50 HZ
and all industrial equipment works just fine over here,
>>59446974
>lower frequency is better since it carries further.
10 Hz difference is meaningless in this regard.
>>59447580
>>59447362
False - your shit is far less efficient and less accurate, 3 phase operates better at 60Hz and has reduced power draw. On top of that, 60Hz is a far better time keeping standard, including for equipment.
>>59437663
Can confirm AS/NZS is best.
>>59445732
Here's even more.
>>59438475
this and only this
ONLY ONE STANDARD IS CORRECT, YOU FAGGOTS - AND IT COMES FROM THE CONTINENT THAT INVENTED BOTH AC AND DC TRANSMISSION
NORTH AMERICA PLUS #1
FUCK EVERYONE ELSE
CANADA/MEXIBROS GET IN HERE
FUCK EUROPE YOU KEK FAGGOTS
My building is 70 years old and the plugs are really outdated only one has a grounding because I need it for my TV but besides that all my lamps are from the 70's so the plugs are all rusted and bent out of shape and have no grounding.
>>59447730
>2 inches in diameter
>Need a pound of plastic just for one plug
>Jamming a hard to reach switch on every plug when the appliance itself comes with one already right on the front
>Having to use an industrial size plug to charge a cell phone or operate some other low power novelty device
No thank you.
>>59447825
I'd be concerned about the old wiring. Can you use more than 40 amps in your entire building?
>>59447753
>tfw those kids look like my siblings but blonde
I like to emphasize myself as being European American, it really hurts when I get clumped together with other Americans... I don't want anything to do with this country, and the only thing that has given me any hope in this nigger ridden pisshole of a shitheap is trump possibly winning.
>>59440403
>and a grounded version was patented in 1972
Lrn2 reading comprehension m8
>>59448033
Don't know what that means but anytime there's a thunder storm power is out in my building but not the newer ones around me.
>>59439647
>Not toasting while you shower
What is this? I'm trying to understand. Making toast while going in the shower? My toaster takes about two minutes.Taking a shower is about ten minutes.
Crumpets take about five minutes.Tea takes at least six minutes.
>>59437547
Destroy your foot tier.
Archiving thread
http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2011/09/28/baby-with-plug-stuck-in-skull-successfully-removed/
>>59439846
>much amaze
back to reddit
>>59437547
>Posting Supreme leader of all plug design, the humble, explosion proof BS1363.
literally the only example where brits did something better than the us
>due to backward compatibility problems
>>59447685
Ideal frequency falls somewhere between these two.
You can't use grid frequency for time keeping because the frequency is almost never nominal, and changes with load.
>>59448322
>You can't use grid frequency for time keeping because the frequency is almost never nominal, and changes with load.
Maybe in your third world shithole, but here grid power is strongly regulated to be within very small percentage of clean 60Hz
>>59447982
>you will never have the option of isolating your appliance at the wall
>putting in a plug requires effort???
Seems like there are plenty of sparkies on pol. Who else /sparky/ here?
>>59447801
>NORTH AMERICA PLUS #1
>FUCK EVERYONE ELSE
agreed.
>>59439470
True, but that's sorta like losing, that's really hard for us.
>>59443820
5-6 cents here. Feels good.
>>59438295
I saw $1.88 here in Florida pham, and my energy bill is like $120 and the AC is running at like 65 some days.
>>59442361
It's not outlawed, they just took them down from state and federal buildings in a few states.
>>59440791
Holy kek
>>59448395
Yeah whatever bro, have fun with your massively oversized shit plugs that need a whole square foot of wall space just to plug in.
>>59448395
>you will never have the option of isolating your appliance at the wall
Sure we do. We just unplug it, after all:
>putting in a plug requires effort?
>>59448389
It's regulated everywhere, tard. Regulation doesn't mean shit when you can't realistically keep it at exactly 60.
Not to mention that your argument about timekeeping doesn't make any sense. It doesn't matter if you get 50 or 60 amplitudes per second. Read up on what a hertz is.
>>59448735
I want to plug that in so bad I don't think I can die happy till I do.
>>59448822
You misunderstand the use of regulation in that context.
>>59439047
You put fuses in your plugs because the quality of you machines is crap.
>mfw when i watch a military trained "electrician" install a circuit on a live panel with a screw driver.
>mfw when the entire house is shorting and flashing like it was struck by lightning.
>mfw he say "oh no, its fine. this is how its done.
>>59448822
I'm an electrical engineer, I know what hertz are you fucking slav shit. It's far easier for a 60 count cycle to be used in electronics, since it makes everything uniform.
60 cycles = 1 second
60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minutes = 1 hour
>>59449596
They have fuses in their plugs because their whole apartments are on a single loop due to copper shortages prior to WW1 iirc.
>>59449778
It doesn't make any difference.
>>59449763
fuck im retarded
>MFW when
>MFW when
>MFW when
>MFW when
>MFW when
>MFW when
>>59449898
rip in piece
>>59449869
Jesus christ. For mathematical simplicity it does and to reduce the amount of recalculating and reorganizing circuits you have to do - using different components just to get the math right
>>59449778
>>59449981
And electronics don't keep time from grid frequency, they have internal clocks.
Here's something fun for everyone to marvel at. Watch where you put your hands. There is still shit like this in service...
>>59450001
No wonder your country is fucking poor.
>>59449792
The great copper shoah of England.
"Oy vey it was terrible, the copper was so relatively abundant, but so was our willingness to save money at all costs."
>>59446598
We do have one standard. But as always britbongs are "different". If Europe was a family they would be the autistic child.
>>59450068
At least we're rich in qualified personnel.
>>59437663
220V?
>>59450101
Your grounds are different by country. It's not all the same.
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