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Null said:
>bro just replace the socket every 5 years bro get really bougie pinchy pinches in them so they pinch tight bro

like how do you not understand this is a fundamental design flaw for a shitty fucking plug? better plugs exist. they don't have this issue. there is no concept of a loose plug in the eu.
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Sockets from a big box store should easily last decades. Eighty year old plugs will not have the ground lug and still retain the two spades. You mentioned a trailer so maybe it was wired with Huang Lao sockets and they fucking suck. I'll concede that NEMA sockets have to do the whole contact the spades correctly part well for them to function properly. True Schuko plugs separate the retention function from the electrical contact function.

Now going to call bullshit on no loose plugs in EU, having personally experienced them:
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Worth saying there are in fact five different standards that match the pin spacing so many universal cables aren't the nice lock in circle.

I have not said that the good old NEMA 5-15 was somehow magical and without flaws, only mocking Europe for being Europe. Schuko is a good plug, 16 amp capacity, optional polarized/ground, durable, if a bit big. Naturally, the German design is good and the French ripped it off. Britain's debauched creation is a bloated, foot murdering mess with pointless redundancies like a glass fuse in every plug.

The American NEMA plug is small so plug density is great, carries 15 amps, has a century of forwards compatibility, is compatible with both polarized and none polarized equipment, and extremely adaptable to all sorts of form factors. It also has about three critical dimensions, length, spacing, and height of the spades while the Euro has everything dimensioned perfectly inside a circle. German design, naturally.

Engineering is tradeoffs, not perfection.
 
Maximilian Rez D'Fault said:
I've now read that this guy has a wife and frankly, I still don't believe that he is straight. Either it's a "wife", a beard, or he's lying about being married because there is not reality where this man is heterosexual.
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This guy is so dedicated to cosplaying as a 1980s television presenter that he even has a fake wife to pretend like he's totally straight. Alec is the Millenial Liberace
 
Null said:
bro they fall out in an number of situations exposing hot prongs. this DOES NOT and CAN NOT happen with EU sockets because they are inset. by the time the hot prong is exposed it is disconnected.
how the fuck do americans cope even about this? people in this country can't admit that things are shit even if they are objectively shit.
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Exposed prongs are like a peanut allergy, if you die because of it, you needed to go anyways.
Ten feet of cord you could yank on and a plastic housing at the prongs themselves, but you needed to grab the metal bit that's barely sticking out, even though the plug apparently just falls out on it's own?

I'm sorry but if you get zapped by this and somehow die from it, i'm glad you're dead.

If God wanted twenty square feet of my house to be dedicated to wall warts and power strips like a fucking fog-breather then he never would have let us win the war and we'd still be a colony.
American plugs are small, cheap and effective. You have a choice on whether or not to use a ground pin, that's democracy. I rip all the ground pins off my hurricane fans.
Who told you that i needed a baby gate inside my fucking outlet to decide for me whether or not i can access the terminals? No thank you, it's my right to shove two bare wires into the holes if i want.

Back in the day we had something called accountability, and if someone killed themselves fucking around with electricity it was a damn shame, but they should have known what they were doing.
Now people want the nanny state to retard-proof everything everywhere. Don't drink the paint, don't stick your dick in the light socket! Who needs to be told this?
I'll tell you who. Brown people. You're not a brown person, Josh. I've seen those sparkling blue eyes of yours and i know your IQ is high enough not to drink paint and cut me off in traffic.

I believe in you. I know you can do it.
Outlets do get gaped out over time by the way. If your outlet is ready to settle down and start a family, it needed replacing ten years ago.
 
I don't mind him. Being somebody who also 'tisms out about mundane appliances and stuff sometimes, I think his videos are pretty good and he typically keeps the political spergery out of it. I had a feeling he was some sort of lefty but at least he isn't too retarded about it right now.
 
McMitch said:
This was my first tight way back when TC started talking about how Euro outlets are better because American ones hang halfway out. I knew he was an autist lacking common sense especially in the service of arbitrary critique towards the US.

Changing an outlet is fucking easy to do. Even then, I’ve been electrocuted more while changing a light bulb (once) then I ever have from an electrical socket, even worn ones (never).
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I'm a certified mouth breathing retard and even *I* managed to do it with just a flat head screwdriver and a $4 outlet tester to see if I wired the shit correctly.

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Punished Wankula said:
Who told you that i needed a baby gate inside my fucking outlet to decide for me whether or not i can access the terminals? No thank you, it's my right to shove two bare wires into the holes if i want.
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We actually can get baby gated ones, too.
 
TC is a fag and shits all retarded but induction cooking is rad and the only thing I agree with the WEF Illuminati about
 
Look at loose plugs as a feature. Eu plugs also use spring loaded contacts internally. If the plug's casing locks through an external mechanism, it won't be as alarming as an American plug is when the electrical contacts grow weak, which is also a fire hazard.
 
残念。 said:
You'd only have loss if you used the same conductor thickness for both, which the eu and us don't.
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Well even at my 120V some of the wires to the sockets are really thick on mine, annoying. Can't use those holes in the back of sockets and switches, have to use the screw down method and even that's a pain sometimes.
 
mlanguishi said:
Well even at my 120V some of the wires to the sockets are really thick on mine, annoying. Can't use those holes in the back of sockets and switches, have to use the screw down method and even that's a pain sometimes.
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The thicker the better. That way I don't have to worry about my wiring becoming a heating element inside my walls when I start sucking down some juice.

1500w space heaters are pretty dangerous. Typically your 15a circuit breaker is there to protect you from a short, not to babysit you as you creep up to its limit for hours at a time. In cheaper built houses, it causes plugs to wear much quicker due to the contacts themselves heating up, which causes them to wear, which causes them to heat more. Add it up over time and you have a house fire.
 
残念。 said:
The thicker the better. That way I don't have to worry about my wiring becoming a heating element inside my walls when I start sucking down some juice.

1500w space heaters are pretty dangerous. Typically your 15a circuit breaker is there to protect you from a short, not to babysit you as you creep up to its limit for hours at a time. In cheaper built houses, it causes plugs to wear much quicker due to the contacts themselves heating up, which causes them to wear, which causes them to heat more. Add it up over time and you have a house fire.
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Yeah, mine's not new really, probably newer ones are super thin or worse aluminum. The only downside is when you have to install or change anything with them. Plumbing and Electrical problems are the usual worst problems to me for a home owner.

I noticed now places are starting to add to get in spec 'whole home surge protectors' that go in front of the breaker which I'm not sure is a good idea or not really. Not cheap for sure, but I suppose could help with lightning hits.

$500-800 install and apparently last only 4 years in spec. That could mean a lot of end-user surprises down the line.

This would actually be a good subject for TC to cover sometime.
 
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