Oh, I wish they could make this international – I hate travelling with adapters which end up being unusable anyway. Not, just because I’m Danish, but I think our ‘face’ is just so sweet – why can’t you all do that:-D
We can’t agree on a common European socket, how could we think that we could conceive a single currency that works!!!! I’ll go along with the USB connector.
USB is low voltage low current,about 5V and an amp if you’re lucky so the connectors are small. Ask a USB connector to carry mains power to a washing machine for example and you’ll see it smoke, melt, and then go on fire.
This lovely collection of plugs can carry considerably more but actually they are domestic plugs. Go into a factory and you’ll see even more types for even higher voltages and currents. In the end countries also have different frequencies of AC so it is hugely complicated and there’s certainly no way of having a one size fits all. I think the danish plug is my fav
Brazil just changed to that format. And I was wandering where did that come from… blame the Swiss! Now I have to buy adapters for all my older appliances — or electronics brought from abroad. Major pain in the neck…
Australia/NZ and China are the only ones with a switch to save power. Um… der! I’d like to see a history of apple proprietary connectors – now there’s some proper cause for frustration. Anyone got a female ADC to male DVI handy?
The Australian one has a switch for safety. Very practical.
Moving from Australia meant a plug problem with two round pins here, but at least 220v, which in practice is the same as Australia’s 240. I have plugs from everywhere on chargers, etc. Here, multi system plug powerboards are available. A simple solution — as long as you don’t plug in a 110v appliance in a 220/240v country.
Really nice… but only because some plugs look almost the same does not mean that they are!
The Brazilian plug (which is an IEC standard but only used in some places in Brasil anyway) is not at all compatible with the swiss plug :-(
En Argentina entra cualquier norma “,en tomacorrientes y la gente siempre esta adoptando ,los adaptadores de enchufes,sin normas electricas que hacen del aparato algo peligroso En muchos casos se soslaya el uso de la descarga a tierra
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Ours look so distressed. However, the one in the upper right looks very happy. :)
Dec 29th, 2011 / 9:16 am
That is strangely mesmerizing :)
Dec 29th, 2011 / 9:25 am
This shit makes me sick. Why can’t we agree on a standard of outlet, even if the voltages are different — which they shouldn’t be.
Absolutely no reason for this crap.
Dec 29th, 2011 / 9:27 am
The Australian / Chinese one is also used in New-Zealand and Argentina.
The British one is also used in Singapore and Malaysia, plus probably quite a few other ex-British colonies.
Dec 29th, 2011 / 11:55 pm
maybe just replaced it all by USB port, smaller, smart and friendly….
Dec 30th, 2011 / 4:37 am
Woha Prescott! Chill, man, it’s not that important.
Dec 30th, 2011 / 5:29 am
Did you check how many different ones still exist within Europe? hahaha how could we ever agree on world level…
Dec 30th, 2011 / 8:53 am
Oh, I wish they could make this international – I hate travelling with adapters which end up being unusable anyway. Not, just because I’m Danish, but I think our ‘face’ is just so sweet – why can’t you all do that:-D
Dec 30th, 2011 / 11:32 am
too bad the israeli one is upside down..
Dec 30th, 2011 / 1:25 pm
Cool! We have the North American and the Japanese outlets here in the Philippines!
Dec 31st, 2011 / 7:59 am
Why nobody thought of international standards to create an outlet Would not it?
Dec 31st, 2011 / 8:24 am
We can’t agree on a common European socket, how could we think that we could conceive a single currency that works!!!! I’ll go along with the USB connector.
Dec 31st, 2011 / 8:34 am
USB is low voltage low current,about 5V and an amp if you’re lucky so the connectors are small. Ask a USB connector to carry mains power to a washing machine for example and you’ll see it smoke, melt, and then go on fire.
This lovely collection of plugs can carry considerably more but actually they are domestic plugs. Go into a factory and you’ll see even more types for even higher voltages and currents. In the end countries also have different frequencies of AC so it is hugely complicated and there’s certainly no way of having a one size fits all. I think the danish plug is my fav
Dec 31st, 2011 / 9:03 am
The Irish outlet is the same as the UK.
Dec 31st, 2011 / 12:58 pm
The British one is still used in Hong Kong.
Dec 31st, 2011 / 2:42 pm
In northern Italy near the border to Austria you will find the italian and german outlet as well. Really annoying!!
Dec 31st, 2011 / 7:13 pm
Brazil just changed to that format. And I was wandering where did that come from… blame the Swiss! Now I have to buy adapters for all my older appliances — or electronics brought from abroad. Major pain in the neck…
Dec 31st, 2011 / 9:35 pm
Australia/NZ and China are the only ones with a switch to save power. Um… der! I’d like to see a history of apple proprietary connectors – now there’s some proper cause for frustration. Anyone got a female ADC to male DVI handy?
Dec 31st, 2011 / 10:27 pm
The Australian one has a switch for safety. Very practical.
Moving from Australia meant a plug problem with two round pins here, but at least 220v, which in practice is the same as Australia’s 240. I have plugs from everywhere on chargers, etc. Here, multi system plug powerboards are available. A simple solution — as long as you don’t plug in a 110v appliance in a 220/240v country.
Dec 31st, 2011 / 11:03 pm
South African is wrong.
Jan 1st, 2012 / 12:21 pm
What Perez said, just with less swearing.
Jan 3rd, 2012 / 4:39 am
Really nice… but only because some plugs look almost the same does not mean that they are!
The Brazilian plug (which is an IEC standard but only used in some places in Brasil anyway) is not at all compatible with the swiss plug :-(
Jan 3rd, 2012 / 5:02 am
Wow i am very surprised to see that Brasil is using the same model as Switzerland.
Jan 4th, 2012 / 2:46 am
Yeah… it would have been nice. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1#Swiss_plug for the differences.
Jan 4th, 2012 / 4:28 am
The Denmark one is happy, hahahahaha.
Japan and US/Canada/Mexico are nearly identical.
Italian outlets are totally crazy!
Jan 7th, 2012 / 9:28 am
En Argentina entra cualquier norma “,en tomacorrientes y la gente siempre esta adoptando ,los adaptadores de enchufes,sin normas electricas que hacen del aparato algo peligroso En muchos casos se soslaya el uso de la descarga a tierra
Feb 12th, 2012 / 9:40 am