• Tavarin
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    9 months ago

    Your outlets are death traps.

    Not they’re not, people are not dying from our outlets. We run 120V here, so it’s not a lot of power.

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      9 months ago

      I’m just as defensive of my standard but I’ve at some point in my life coexisted with one similar to yours and it was unsafe, put into simple therms.

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        9 months ago

        And yet people getting electrocuted here is rarer than people getting hit by lightning, and it almost always people working on power lines or high voltage equipment and virtually never from outlets.

        They are not unsafe, they are fine.

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          9 months ago

          Growing up with a similar standard, hearing people saying the exact same thing then, at some point the standard was altered, so someone found the previous lacking on some front.

          I’m as defensive of mine as you are of yours.

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            9 months ago

            And what was your previous standard? It may have been significantly worse than North American plugs.

            North American plugs are actually fine.

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              9 months ago

              I can’t find pictures of it but keeping in mind the same basic two prong setup, remove the sunken safety socket, ground prongs, ground line and socket safety shutter.

              It was essentially a flat face plate with two holes on it.

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                9 months ago

                Ya, that’s way worse than North American plugs. We have a deep ground pin, and the slots hold plugs pretty tightly.