that’s cute. nah tho. the pins are just… out there. ready to kill you
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Dave@lemmy.nz 3 weeks agoDoes NA not have insulated pins? Where a half inch of so of the pin nearest the plug head is insulated so when plugging in the exposed part of the pin is inside the hole before the pin makes contact with live power?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Technus@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It does not. Some devices may have that on their plugs, but it’s certainly not standard.
One night when I was 14, I tried to plug in my phone charger beside my bed in the dark and was accidentally touching one of the pins when it made contact.
Fortunately, I wasn’t completing the circuit and I was electrically isolated laying on my bed, so I didn’t actually get shocked. But I did feel a buzz in my finger like you get from those prank toys that shock the victim. That’s a sensation I will never forget.
Not defending our plugs at all.
terminhell@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol, no.
Dave@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Ah well, it’s been the law here for 20 years.
I’m also reading about how our NZ/Australia socket was based on an American 125v socket design, later upgraded to allow 240v.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/NZS_3112
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
See. That’s the kinds of things we could did if we had like… A government that worked. 20 years ago our politicians were less worried about our safety and more worried about spying on us