@tinyfluffs @siege The UK sockets are technically deprecated both mechanically and electrically and if you want a friggin' fuse, put that into the device at the back and have some good quality breakers instead...
All those #IEC connectors - espechally IEC60906-1 - are electrically, mechanically and otherwise far safer and more secure.
The only reason the #EU didn't make #IEC60906-1 mandatory like #USBc is because the retrofit would take 75 years and create 700.000t of otherwise 100% avoidable #eWaste per year during that time!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1#Possibility_of_acceptance_in_European_Union
@doc @tinyfluffs @siege well, those connectors ain't designed with any retention locks or other mechanical fastening, which is a valid issue.
#IEC60309 doesn't have that issue (tho it's obviously quite bulky for what it is) and thus is the de-facto standard in Europe and espechally Germany for connecting industrial appliances...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60309
Tho for no good reason did #Perilex not get replaced for ovens & stoves with it and instead we got worse shit in the form of screw terminals like some pre-WW1 electrical devices...
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