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What is the best style electrical outlet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I may be skewed by the fact its the plug of my country; but i like the type L plug (its the no 1 in the photo) mostly because its modular: you dont need to get a specific faceplate to have a certain arrangement of plugs, switches etc... You just take the brace plate off and you can rearrange the fruits in the box to your hearts content. Eg: you pass an ethernet cable and need to put a keystone in the wall; you just buy the fruit and put it in the place of a blanking plate. What i dont like is the almost total lack of shielding for the live and neutral.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree. The Italian plug is compact and safe, and also modular.

Too bad we only have it in Italy

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chile says hi

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 9 months ago

Wow, really? I need to visit Chile :)

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, reversible polarity. I hate that.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's 2024

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot of dangerous stuff coming from questionable countries that are referencing neutral in bad circuit designs. That can make chassis/buttons/exposed parts live if the polarity is set as such. Even worse, it might work great for a long time and then a diode or capacitor goes open circuit and suddenly something is live that wasn't before.

In a device I trust, sure polarity won't matter. But, there's a lot of bad stuff out there, and I really don't want to count on my RCD to stop the current before it's done enough damage to me.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

eh if you buy weird mains-powered devices from aliexpress that elude import control, that's on you