• @cynar@lemmy.world
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    201 year ago

    Can I point out the UK BS1363 (type G) plug is the only one you can use to open a bottle of beer.

    I’m not sure what that says about the UK.

    • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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      181 year ago

      German here. I’m absolutely positive I could open a beer with any of those plugs. And half of the sockets.

      • @cynar@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        A fair point, but ours is practically a bottle opener. A lot easier after a few previous bottles.

    • @Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Voltage is 220/240/250v, unless it is American or some parts of Central and South American where we use 110/120/130v.

      The big pin is the earth(usually middle), left is usually neutral, and right is hot.

        • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Pretty sure they’re on 115/120v. Which is also not entirely true because part of the country is apparently wired for 230v or something.

          I dunno, there’s a long history there.

          • @usrtrv@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Japan is just 100V, not 110/115/120, there are some appliances that will use 200V. Similar to how the US has 240V. The weird bit with Japan uses both 50 and 60hz.

            • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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              11 year ago

              Right. That was the thing. They’re 50/60hz based on location. I know something was different but I misremembered.

              For the US, they use 240v split phase. The secondary on the transformers have a middle tap, called neutral, so if you go from line to line, you get 240v, if you go from either line to neutral, you get 115/120v approximately. The benefit to it is that you can use two 120v devices in series, one connected to line 1, the other on line 2 and the neutral connections simply connected together. Total load voltage is 240v.

              But appliances that use a lot of current like clothes dryers, air conditioners/heat pumps, water heaters, and ovens, can be connected to 240v directly.

              It creates some interesting opportunities and challenges.

      • @frezik@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        People get this wrong all the time. North America is 120V for the usual outlets, but what comes into your house is 240V split phase. You get 240V in places you want 240V, like electric stoves or clothes dryers.

        Exception is apartments, especially those with elevators, which use three phase. Then you combine two legs to get 208V and your electric stove is kinda shitty.

  • @MacAttak8@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    This has got to be only the most common plugs around the world.

    I’m only familiar with US standards but this doesn’t seem to cover our other plugs for higher voltages.

    • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      11 year ago

      Google NEMA receptacle types and you’ll find all the ones you’re missing.

      This is a pretty coarse international thing, NEMA is more specialized to North American receptacles. “Type B” is a NEMA 5-15R, for example.

    • Inductor
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      41 year ago

      It’s missing the European high voltage plugs as well.

  • @LyD@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Did some travel recently and was exposed to some new plugs after using type A/B all my life. Big fan of type G, hated E/F.