[Mongoose]

Aww, Denmark's is a happy face.

[NGTM-1R]

Switzerland's is...well, what do they need all those prongs for?!

[Klaustrophobia]

nine-phase power.  obviously. 

[Nuke]

nah, its to power t.g. warrior's guitar amp

[Ghostavo]

[attachment deleted by a basterd]

[FreeSpaceFreak]

That Swiss plug is actually three power outlets, each of those recessions fits one plug

European plugs are mostly standardized on the two-round-prongs mechanism for the mains, which still makes them pretty much interchangeable. My cellphone charger (has no grounding) fits in the three European ones, as well as the Italian, Swiss and Danish ones. My laptop plugs work with both the French and German style - grounded on both. And if I'm willing to go without grounding, I bet it will fit the Italian, Danish and Russian ones as well (in Soviet Russia, the power grounds you?). So we can travel most of Europe without any adapters, very convenient

[NGTM-1R]

That Swiss plug is actually three power outlets, each of those recessions fits one plug

So they just screwed with us by making it the only one of multiple plugs. Got it! (Seriously though was it that impossible to find a picture to match with the others?)

[karajorma]

Maybe they only ever install sockets for multiple plugs. That would be a very sensible thing to do as apart from being convenient you get 5,000 fires a year in the US from overloaded sockets.

Or they were just lazy.

[Mongoose]

Maybe they only ever install sockets for multiple plugs. That would be a very sensible thing to do as apart from being convenient you get 5,000 fires a year in the US from overloaded sockets.

Ah, the Christmas Vacation Syndrome.

[z64555]

Or maybe they just did it for style... 

[Qent]

At any given moment, the average American house has 120 volts of electricity flowing though it.

:||||||||||||||||||

[Mongoose]

*leans against wall*

*is thrown away violently from the shock*

[deathfun]

*leans against wall*

*is thrown away violently from the shock*

Volts mean little
Amps on the other hand

[ssmit132]

Didn't we just discuss the fact that the amps being the thing that matters is wrong?

[FireSpawn]

Didn't we just discuss the fact that the amps being the thing that matters is wrong?

I Volt that we let the matter rest Amp go to a different topic, such as the amount (or lackthereof) of frustration that Ryan experienced when he went to the shop and asked for chips and the fact that if it wasn't for the Gulf Stream, he'd just be going on holiday to a smaller version of Canada.

[deathfun]

Didn't we just discuss the fact that the amps being the thing that matters is wrong?

Not about the part where it kills you, no

[Nuke]

Didn't we just discuss the fact that the amps being the thing that matters is wrong?

Not about the part where it kills you, no

Meh, it's not the volts you need to watch, it's the amps.

WRONG
also heres what you can do with 2.3 volts

[z64555]

I had no idea electrical engineering was so difficult.

[Nuke]

it gets hardest when you start doing stuff with ac, capacitors start acting like resistors and inductors start acting like capacitors. fortunately most of the stuff i do is dc. 

[deathfun]

Didn't we just discuss the fact that the amps being the thing that matters is wrong?

Not about the part where it kills you, no

Meh, it's not the volts you need to watch, it's the amps.

WRONG
also heres what you can do with 2.3 volts

My statement is yes, incorrect as it is simplified

So I'll just rephrase to save my hide:
If there is no current through your body, you won't end up dead
(thus leading to a discussion about insulation, grounding and the likes)







Reminds me of a fun experiment we did in physics actually. We hooked up this box of sorts (forgot what it was called) where it had different voltage and amp settings. Everyone would increase volts instead of amps expecting to have better results when attaching say, a pencil to it

However, when I told them to pop the male end into the female port which had the max amp setting, but a significantly lower volt setting...

We made sparks out of that pencil following that. It was ****ing awesome