One good thing about UK plugs, is that the lower two prongs for Live and Neutral can not be inserted into the socket with out the longer Earth prong going in. ( In theory )
The earth prong pushes back a lock so that the two prongs that make the circuit go through..
I've always wondered about the earth connector on US plugs.. Where the hell is it??
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One good thing about UK plugs, is that the lower two prongs for Live and Neutral can not be inserted into the socket with out the longer Earth prong going in. ( In theory )
The earth prong pushes back a lock so that the two prongs that make the circuit go through..
I've always wondered about the earth connector on US plugs.. Where the hell is it??
The UK based trade paper, Computer weekly has been tracking this project for quite some time now..
Check out the recent article here