I’ve always known these with pins, or are they replaced by those two tiny plates on the side?
Edit: example of one of the most sold models https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/387671120546
This is a french type socket, one with tiny plates in the side is called schuko
It’s two variants of the European socket (type E and type F), nowadays most plugs are compatible with both versions so you can buy either one. Just check your plugs before.
Here is an illustration of both sockets:
Type E
Type F
Brits watching this unfold with popcorn…
UK plugs are superior.
Until you accidentally step on one.
They are not designed for this purpose.
Not with that attitude!
It’s not my volt.
I thought Britain uses pound square foot square fortnight per Coulomb instead of Volt?
Swiss plugs are the best. I won’t be neutral on this !
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)
I know you’re not wrong but I’ve always heard that pin called “ground” instead of “earth” in English
In US English Ground is used to signify Earth. But if you said Ground in England people would understand what you meant.
I guess to be fair, most of my time working with electronics was alongside the USN so that makes sense
I hear people use earth in English sometimes, but I think “earth ground” is pretty common
Earth is usually used in British English, I don’t know about elsewhere.
Yes, if your plug looks like this, the new ones will do.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/CEE_7-7.jpg/500px-CEE_7-7.jpg
Ground goes from the pin on the one you already have into the plug, or through the tiny plates on the side.
More info in here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko
Hello, the pin showed in the image is the ground. Though the one with the benl link is also with a ground. You can see it in the picture its a piece of metal shown in the inner diameter of the female plug. You should be aware that if your male plug is not provided with this connector, your either can’t connect it to this socket or you will not have a ground.
Are there any disadvantages of schuko sockets against the French/Belgian/Polish ones? If I ever can afford my own apartment, I would like to install schuko sockets instead of the ones with the pin which are standard in my country.
Before you buy the other plug standard for your place, please check legislation and insurance terms. It may affect liability if you install a nonstandard plug
Most devices I have are compatible with both, perhaps because Netherlands and Belgium are similar markets (because Flanders) and Belgium uses French plugs, so loads of products made for the Dutch-Belgian market will be compatible with both plug types. The only product I own that isn’t French-compatible is from Germany, not sure if that’s an exception or the norm there, but I guess what I’m trying to say is that it might also simply not matter which one you install since it’s easy and common to make universal plugs for these two socket types
You need to buy the one that corresponds to the standard where you live. The same as the ones on your walls. If you buy the wrong one it will work most of the time but create massive frustration every once in a while.
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