What Was Supposed to be the Dominant Receptacle in North America

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Fortunately I am working on improving and advocating in making this design standard once 230-240 volts utilization becomes implemented and common. It takes impudence to challenge IEC 60906-1, but knowing what I know... thanks but no thanks to IEC 60906-1.
 
mbrooke said:
Fortunately I am working on improving and advocating in making this design standard once 230-240 volts utilization becomes implemented and common. It takes impudence to challenge IEC 60906-1, but knowing what I know... thanks but no thanks to IEC 60906-1.
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Or this:

 
Besoeker3 said:
Or this:
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I'm not well versed with the history of the BS 1363 socket, but my understanding is that it was never considered in North America in any way, coming after WWII?

Although your design is even more technically superior to my crow foot from a grounding perspective in that the a broken ground pin will not open the shutters in your sockets.

The down side is that the BS1363 is bulky and more expensive to produce. But then again safety is paramount.
 
mbrooke said:
I'm not well versed with the history of the BS 1363 socket, but my understanding is that it was never considered in North America in any way, coming after WWII?

Although your design is even more technically superior to my crow foot from a grounding perspective in that the a broken ground pin will not open the shutters in your sockets.

The down side is that the BS1363 is bulky and more expensive to produce. But then again safety is paramount.
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I agree with what you say. The British one is substantial, much more so than in other countries, even compared to European countries. And the three pin square plugs each have a cartridge fuse. It's just British and, as far as I'm aware, not elsewhere.
 
Besoeker3 said:
I agree with what you say. The British one is substantial, much more so than in other countries, even compared to European countries. And the three pin square plugs each have a cartridge fuse. It's just British and, as far as I'm aware, not elsewhere.
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I think it is used in parts of India, Malta, ect once under British influence.
 
grich said:
The design did not go to waste. Just travel Down Under. Check out the History section of this Wikipedia page:
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Yup, Smart folks :cool:

And, even better, its also being used in China:

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All in all I prefer this plug over the Swiss inspired design that the IEC is trying to push onto the world.


Besoeker3 said:
Could be but I think India has round plugs rather than square pins. No biggie. Still three pins.
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I've seen vids with square pins, but who knows.

Edit- this says Bangladesh. Guess I mistook all that for India.

http://pubweb2.iec.ch/worldplugs/typeG.htm
 
British sockets have shutters on the live and neutral contacts so that foreign objects can’t be introduced into them.
Good thing too!!
 
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