I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small!
Literally they had one job. This has a schuko plug sized receptacle but with Italian plug size holes. So it can convert from Italian 10A plug to Italian 10A plug... really useful...
Producing who know how many millions of useless converters and shipping them in a different continent without trying them or even reading the specs....
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did you try a little foreplay first?
The one person who down voted this gets told this a lot.
If it goes into a 10A plug it should have the small holes, the Schuko plugs with the fat holes are rated up for more, 16A I think.
I've seen the smaller holed ones on ungrounded sockets, but not on a grounded one like this. But I am no electrician.
Yep this one still is very weird.
I mean as a female socket it could have the "fat holes" - because the current limiting interface is the thin, male part that goes into the outlet. It's not like a consumer will feed back 16 power into the outlet.
We're still taking about electrical sockets... right?
Sigh tar -xzvf
Oh god no. It's not about feeding in 16A, it's about consuming 16A thereby overloading the wiring. If everything else is OK, trying to consume 16A should trip the fuse, still - if that doesn't work, you'll get a certain (normally very small) fire risk.
Okay, fair point, but that's the same issue as connecting muliple consumers to the same wall outlet via an extension cord / multisocket.
Yes but the electrical code allows this kind of converter if there's a label like "1500W max" because most manufacturers are lazy and don't ship a cable for the Italian market, they give the cable for the German market. So you have stuff like:
That consume like 2-3 A at max but for the manufacturer it was cheaper to ship the German 16A plug and fuck with all the Italians that have the houses with 10A receptacles
Checks notes: so TIL that euro plugs and sockets are not standard‽
Yes basically every European country and Swiss has its own plug standard
Yes but the standards are listed somewhere, so, uh, that's job-done, right?
I have encountered similar in Spain. I call it the As seen on TV! phenomenon.
That appears to be an earthed plug into an unearthed adaptor. They're not supposed to fit.
Note, I'm not familiar with Italian plugs, but they look a lot like Dutch plugs which I grew up with.
The adapter has the earth, is the middle pin and also has the side contacts that would touch the earth on the side of the schuko (here just for aesthetics because the schuko pins can't fit)
That's what she said.
Canadian Electrician here. I have zero idea what a schuko is, but could you not just buy a proper cord end from a hardware store and just replace the end of the cord instead of using adaptors? We can usually get replacement cord ends at most hardware stores for only a couple dollars and they don't require much effort or electrical experience to replace.
Often these adaptors are cheaply made anyways and sometimes burn up.
Can and most time I do that, although sometimes I'm too lazy to cut and wire a new plug