• @[email protected]
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    1117 days ago

    Each country developed its own plug system in Europe. This looks like a French CEE 7 type plug - its asymmetrical fixed earth point creates wiring compatibility problems where the poles are wired differently in different countries. A lot of domestic appliances now use the German Schuko plug type as an answer to this problem (the earth is on the circumference edge pins)

    • @[email protected]
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      417 days ago

      I know you’re not wrong but I’ve always heard that pin called “ground” instead of “earth” in English

      • Slippery_Snake874
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        117 days ago

        I hear people use earth in English sometimes, but I think “earth ground” is pretty common

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        517 days ago

        In US English Ground is used to signify Earth. But if you said Ground in England people would understand what you meant.

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          117 days ago

          I guess to be fair, most of my time working with electronics was alongside the USN so that makes sense