In my (admittedly local) experience recessed Schuko and Euro sockets are more common in modern homes, whereas flush sockets are more common in older homes. You've probably been staying at hotels, though.
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In my (admittedly local) experience recessed Schuko and Euro sockets are more common in modern homes, whereas flush sockets are more common in older homes. You've probably been staying at hotels, though.
A scenario I have often encountered is in international conferences: there are never enough power outlets to supply the audience, so someone brings a multi-plug extension cord, with e.g. two Schuko-sockets and five flat ones. And then the battle for the Schukos begins and the flat ones remain unused, because many European laptops use Schuko and the visitors from outside Europe only brought Schuko adapters.
Analogously, on my trips to America there have always been colleagues who thought themselves well-prepared with their USA-adapters, only to find they are the "better" type B, and all the sockets are type A.
They are definitely around in Sweden - a lot less common than Schuko, but they exist.
I wonder if this will suffer the same issues as other travel adapters.
I was over in England and plugged in my travel adapter however with the one I had all the slide in and slide out prongs of this adapter were all hot as soon as is was plugged in. The issue was the EU(?) pins that are similarly situated on this adapter were slightly protruding and the faceplate of the socket I was plugging into was metal... It appeared to be a simple tolerance issue that allowed the pins to slide out just far enough to make contact with the metal face plate. Next thing I knew after a small flash I was sitting in a dark hotel room.
I was over in England and plugged in my travel adapter however with the one I had all the slide in and slide out prongs of this adapter were all hot as soon as is was plugged in. The issue was the EU(?) pins that are similarly situated on this adapter were slightly protruding and the faceplate of the socket I was plugging into was metal... It appeared to be a simple tolerance issue that allowed the pins to slide out just far enough to make contact with the metal face plate. Next thing I knew after a small flash I was sitting in a dark hotel room.
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Wow. If they’re all live when plugged in that would be dangerous. Plugging into something like a power board could leave them exposed.
sure it does, that‘s the reason for making a power brick. the back ports convert to standard usb 5V and the high power usb-c port delivers 5, 9 or 12, 15 or 20.3 V.
You are correct, it also converts AC to DC on those USB ports. Pretty sure they were talking about the AC mains voltage plugs. So if you live in the U.S. and you take it over to U.K. and plug in your trimmer, hair drier or curling iron bad things could happen if they don’t have a dual voltage/Step down PSU.
Before my first trip a few years back I looked and most of everything I planned to take was dual voltage/auto switching but one or two things were not.
I have seen a few 120 volt things get plugged into 230/240 volts like a countertop can opener. It worked just long enough to open that first can and did it rather quickly before letting the magic smoke out. 😆
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