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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
The Shuko plug is used in Germany and a few other countries. It has 4.8mm round prongs, the Euro-plug has 4mm round prongs, Italy, Switzerland, Demark has their own round prong type.
If you look up Wikipedia on the worlds plugs, you'll see all the differences.  |
I'm aware that they have some differences, mostly to do with the method of connection for grounding. But otherwise they seem mostly the same. 0.8mm isn't much. It's probably just so you can't plug a German plug into a Polish outlet.
Also, I find it funny that the people who constantly bemoan our use of the imperial system of measurements, haven't actually settled on a universal outlet standard, despite that they all use the same voltage (ish) and frequency. The UK excepted.
At least most of this hemisphere has settled on an outlet type...