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• BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You cam cover them with electric tape or put a cover on them. It’s nobmore dangerous than your home’s exterior outlets though.

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  • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Homes exterior outlets??? It might be europe but we dont have neither of those seemingly pretty dangerous things.

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    • piccolo@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gfci outlets are pretty cool technology. They make getting electrocuted impossible as long they are installed correctly.

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      • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        …in europe. From what i heard america doesnt really have them.

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    • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m going to assume you are English, since they seem to have extreme fear of electric shocks. But there is never any issue with exterior outlets. 99% of them have covers like this and are no nore dangerous that light switches on a patio or in your bathroom.

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      • AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The places where i lived for longer times are hungary, sweden and ireland. Ireland has the same plug as the uk, and in hungary and sweden its the general eu plug. While the plug you linked does seem mostly safe, i think its a good thing that the uk takes electrical safety seriously. My main problem with the female plug is its a christmas tree that can catch on fire and i dont think an exposed wire near it is a good idea. If the cover is required in some way to complete the circuit then i have no problem with it. Thats good design but the sad thing is most of times they skip the good design part.

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• starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every Christmas light string I have seen has had a small fuse inside of the plug, so even if you managed to get a female plug full of water or something and somehow manage to get shocked before a breaker trips in the outlet, you’re probably just going to blow the fuse.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every Christmas light I’ve ever seen were all low voltage. The last Christmas light that was directly into main power instead of having a power convertor plug was decades ago. I guess that’s EU regulations at work.

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