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Power socket types around the world
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this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Isn't it also that the plug matches the voltage and frequency of the grid? It keeps you from frying your thing because you can't plug in the wrong device in the wrong grid, you need an adaptor thingy?
But even with an adapter you risk an electrical fire or blowing up the device. You need an active step up or step down converter. My mum always buys cheap electrical stuff from SE Asia off eBay. She gave us a kitchen appliance like that, it’s rated for 110v and doesn’t have a switching power supply. Even using the supplied adapter we’d be smashing it with 240v from the wall. So it went on the trash heap. A step down converter is ridiculously impractical to use around the house.