I feel you , thst guy explaining didn't have all the knowledge. It's like anyone who knew... try a different bulb , try the fuse ... its only a process of elimination ...not krypton factor..😂😂😂😂

Saved me posting that 🙂👍🏻

@@wayne7521 he has no knowledge whatsoever it is just some pathetic propaganda again from unknown in uk maybe paying these loozers.. to keep promoting or god know what keep somehow uk relevant.. it is pathetic..

I think in the us space heaters are far more common. My house only had one ring until recently and never had an issue. It's quite hard to hit over 7kw in my experience.

I have never seen a lighting circuit on a ring and individual rooms barely have their own riongs, it's usually a ring on each floorSo one for the upstairs sockets and one for downstairs. Something I'd have thought an engineer would know.

I was going to say almost exactly the same thing. You can get furniture right up to the wall with a type G plugged in behind it. I dropped the contents of my bedside table down the back of it in a hotel in Chicago because the gap between it and the wall was massive due to the lamp being plugged in at the back and the wires needing space to poke out of the back of the plug. At home, the lip around the edge of my bedside table brings it into contact wit the wall even though I have a lam and a clock plugged in at the back. Load balancing is never an issue unless you live in a cupboard. Most, if not all, residential properties have multiple ring circuits - one for each room or lights vs sockets, etc. Yes to always checking the switch and as for stepping on a plug - you only do that once - after that you pick up and hope the people you live with do the same! My solution to that proble was to divorce the idiot that always left their hairdryer unplugged on the bedroom floor.

I guess one key difference in the USA is that the houses are generally a lot larger than we have in the UK, so an extra foot behind a TV cabinet doesn't really matter so much for example

Yeah, was coming to say the same - feel he was 'nitpicking' a bit here! Seen so many videos of US sockets needing to be replaced due to them being so loose that plugs do not stay in them securely, never had that happen with a UK one! Also for JT - yes, you can get travel adaptors for when you visit - BUT make sure that whatever you want to plug in is rated for our higher voltage! Most modern electronic equipment (e.g. phone/laptop chargers, computers, etc.) have auto-sensing power supplies that can work on anything from 100-250 volts, but don't bring a hairdryer over, it'll go bang! 😉

Depth - not 'width'.

I'd also add that, due to us being able to switch things off at the socket, there just isn't the need to unplug things and leave a plug on the floor - it'll more than likely just be left plugged in anyway and switched off at the wall.

in which country?

It was problem with older houses up until the late eighties and early nineties. The ring main system was implemented after WWII because of all the rebuilding needed and a shortage of raw materials particularly copper coupled with Britain's crippled economy and lack of money. As such many of these were built with cheap thin wiring which although adequate at the time rapidly became problematic with the rapid increase of household electrical devices. Only private properties which haven't changed hands or been rewired since the seventies would be likely to still have this issue.

Only time I’ve known of load balancing issues in the uk was if we ever went on caravan holidays when I was younger, where turning a few electric heaters on and a kettle would trip the electric 😅 not really comparable though. Been a while since I’ve been in one

@@Chuck_87 Yeah caravan parks used 6 amp breakers back in the day to limit costs. I guess they only expected lights and a portable tv.

@@ianjardine7324 The final ring was not implemented to save copper after WW2. It was to eliminate thee types of socket/plugs with different amperage ratings with just one, using a fuse in the plug .

I'm nearly 60, i have .. id unpluged to plug in something else.... so you got time to experience the joy yet lol

@@Psylaine64 wow you learn something every day. I can’t wait to experience this. Hope you were ok?

I'm 46, stepped on one last year! Truly a lot worse than Lego!!!

@@Jenny.C1978 wow it appears that I’m really lucky. Never really needed to unplug a plug. Maybe I’m lazy

@@lesallen1557 ha ha just maybe I have too many electrical appliances for my own good 🤣 I seem to remember it was my hairdryer that I had unplugged so that I could plug in my hair straighteners 🤣

This is a good point, most of our houses are much smaller than American ones so we can't have the same number of outlets exposed and have to hide them behind furniture instead, but that isn't much of an issue when they are flat against the wall

I have, usually the vacuum cleaner plug 🔌, my own fault for not winding it in I suppose 😂

and at 74 I have never trod on a plug either. most times it will fall on it's side.

71 year old here I've never either come to think of it I don't often find myself walking on the kitchen work surfaces after unplugging something.

I guess people in their 60s and 70s are much less clumsy than those in their 40s 😂 I stood on one a while back! It is truly worse than stepping on a Lego brick 😂

@@Jenny.C1978 Yup, 40-something here and can confirm it is definitely worse than Lego 🤬😂

But never done more than once.

In order to find fault with the UK plugs he said about stepping on them , Well we don't unplug them, we don't need to.

As an American I have got to say your father was a genius. The plugs we got can be quite dangerous sometimes.

When did he invent it? It's certainly stood the test of time.

Do you have an internet link for this. If not you should make a Wikipedia entry.

Same here in Australia too

It said that in the video.

No it's NOT twice the power, power is voltage times amps, eff me I wish you would get it right. Yes the higher voltage needs more security measures but NOT because it delivers more power but just because it has more ability to deliver amps through the skin.

Power is really watts not volts. Power/Watts = Volts x Current/Amps. Machine that consume more power require move current to over come the lower voltage. This is more a case of the system being able to handle that current and overcome physical constraints like resistance Ohms whcih generates heat. It not that such as system cannot exist it can and does in some cases. It more a question which physical constrains you want trade on that the expense involved. The most powerful machines generally run on three phase supply. Because it is more efficient to run motor that use three phase as the original supply from the turbine generator creates three phases, except where the supply in not generated by turning something and you need an inverter, etc. Some motor systems artificially create a phase gap, like certain light rail systems. The London underground is a DC not AC system but the on the trains the motors are typically 3 phase induction which mean the phases have to be generates first different constraints different decisions. On the old trains "shunting" often failed, you you could hear a noise prior to starting then a shunting noise to get the train moving. Sometime the motor would then stall possibly becuase the phases were misaligned or for other reasons, then the driver would break on the platform and start again. Different motor can generate more starting torque which is what you need to heavy stock. Would a kettle boil fast simply becuase it runs on 230v? well a kettle is just a giant resister, in the form of an element and steam and temperate sensitive switches. It doesn't necessarily follow a kettle will boil faster on 230v it also depend on the current it can support. You would likely need to double the current you supply however, and many US house don't do this, more likely is they will get a 220-240 supply as well as 110v for the appliances that need it, but will need the correct socket and plug. Practically this would liekly be a built in unit as it is often in modern homes.

@@vtbn53 True, but speaking as a UK qualified electrician, our houses are typically feed with a 60-100 amp supply, a ring main circuit is typically rated at 32Amps, and lastly the largest fuse a type G plug can be fitted with is 13 Amps, which means any given socket can draw just shy of 3KW of power. now I'm not qualified as an American electrician, but a quick google search reveals that the typical "outlet" is fused at 15Amps, it seams you can fit special purpose ones, but 15A seams to be the norm. Therefore the average American socket can draw a peek of 1.6KW, which is just over half the power of the UK sockets. Therefore, their statement is approximately correct. All be it by confusing the terms. 🙂

In engineering in England, we call it a socket outlet. Surprisingly, the plural is "sockets outlet" rather than "socket outlets."

Or if you're on benefits you call it a plug socket

Boys were taught. Not girls. I learnt from my dad

@@fayesouthall6604 I didn’t realise/remember that only boys were taught. But in my defence, I was very young and it was many (many, many) years ago.

@@just_passing_through fair enough.

I don’t remember ever being taught how to actually do it in school. I was shown what’s going on inside the plug though. Everyone was

@@siloPIRATE I am 59, so it’s very possibly it has not been thought for decades.

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Kids are still taught how to wire a plug as part of the science curriculum

@@ausomebeak good to know :)

I've accidentally trodden on a plug numerous times and it flipping hurts.

Most of the time they stay in but occasonally it happens. I've done it once, would rather tread on a landmine full of lego

@@marypettyfer4640 in all of my 51 years on this planet I have never trodden on a plug, hope you got the medical attention needed :D /s

They all are now, EU regs that we still have.

The fuse rating is really to prevent the cord feeding the appliance from getting overloaded in case of a short, not to protect the appliance itself.

Had mine tested last week, they had a testing meter about the size of a nintendo switch that plugged into the plug socket and a similar size one that was hooked up to the mains box. No cables. One guy stayed at the mains, the other went round with the handheld device. I have 3 ring circuits and 17 double plug sockets in a 2 bed flat and they also installed a carbon monoxide detector for me, only took about 20 minutes. I was really surprised at how quick and easy a job it was.

But have any lives been saved ?

It's bloody horrible 🤣

Even worse than a lego brick. 😊

@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 Nice 1 I'm laughing my head off!!! 🤣 😆 😂

I suppose that depends on whether you consider fire or electrocution as more serious!

@@dopiaza2006 FIRE is statistically a far higher risk compared to electrocution. Scientific & practical fact that led the UK to lead the world in terms of electrical safety.

Aye folk who think stepping on Lego is the worst haven't stepped on a UK plug.

60 years in, it's not a problem I've ever thought off. Our things stay plugged in.

@@1972Ray Just an observation, not a criticism.

It's all very interesting.

A bit of jealousy on the part of our American cousins me thinks.

How do you actually manage to tread on an upturned plug? 80 years on I've not managed to do it,

@@achitophel5852 69 years on and I have done it once, in a dark bedroom.

For some things they will need a converter. Most will be ok at 230V, some will go poof as they can nae take it

@@Swansea32 I believe some devices also rely on the cycle time of the AC and that is different to US, I think UK is 60Htz and US is 50Htz, can alter how clocks work. Many sockets in UK now have USB outlets which are universal, I'm not sure there is much I would bring US to use in UK that's electrical (as a tourist).

​@@stephenlee5929UK is 50Hz

Another scenario is in office or other commercial spaces where "always on" requirements are more common.

can you leave me your house in your will if the kids dont want it?

just like to add, that you only step on a plug once! ;)

That would be very true😂

Wasnt mandatory for white goods to come with plugs until 1992!

Re-wired a plug only this morning.

It wasnt until 1992 that it was mandatory for appliances to come with plugs.

Old enough to remember appliances coming without a plug, but we were never taught how to wire up a plug at School, might have saved my best mate from failing his interview to be an apprentice at the electricity board, always full of himself, he told them he did all the repairs in the house, wired plugs up etc In truth he had never had the back of a plug off in his life, and didn't realise the interview also involved a practical test, a plug to wire up!

I remember that being the case as a kid in the 1970's, but there was an excuse - back then, a lot of pre-war houses still had the old round-pin (BS-546) sockets, so it kind of made sense to sell appliances without a plug and let the customer buy and fit the appropriate plug for their house. Many electrical retailers would offer to fit a plug for you, for an extra cost, but you could save a bit by doing it yourself, reusing a plug taken off another old appliance.

Load balancing has not been an issue for about 50 years. I've seen this video a few times, being reviewed by US Americans and the comments all agree that this guy is really stretching to find 'faults' with Type G plugs and sockets.

lol very good

I think a lot of people think we work on 230 rather than 240 because of the deal with the EU, but that's more of a compromise. The EU wanted 220±5 to be the standard. The UK didn't want to change from 240 because it'd be expensive to update everything. The compromise is that the standard became 230±15, which covers both ranges making them technically standard while not actually solving the problem of two differing voltages. Luckily it does mean most devices claiming 230v will work in the EU and UK.

In construction 🦺 we actually like to work on 110v to be even safer 👍

@@EdDnB Three phase though for industrial use...

you can buy and install the uk style 230 outlets but they ca cost over $200 upwards, not to mention the electricians installing. its just all the appliances are built off edisons 110 is best idea, thats a whole different thing,

Yeah, we've had moulded plugs for a number of years now as standard.

Cutting off a moulded plug will affect your warranty

@@shaunrye7740 You know whats its like....fuse goes just after the warranty ends... change the plug, simple.

The fuse sizes are nothing to do with the appliances. The fuses are there to protect the cable to the appliance, nothing more. if the cable is say 1.5 mm with a 6Amp peak load it'll be fitted with a 3A or 5A fuse. Fitting a 13Amp fuse to such a cable will make a 20mm cable and a 1.5M fuse. If an appliance needs it's own surge protection it will have it's own internal fuse. Obviously the size of the cable will be determined by the power requirements of the appliance. 🙂

I nearly always replace sealed plugs with normal rewireable plugs, So much more convenient when fuse blows.

When I was a kid ,in a storm we had to disconnect the t v aerial in case the lightning it the Ariel on the roof 😊 .inthe 1960s

​@@user-ki2je2di6i this is still something that is recommended. I do micro repairs and have seen a damaged console as a result of a lightning strike hitting an aerial. It travelled down the aerial, through the TV to the HDMI socket, through the HDMI cable and into the console, it blew the HDMI encoder. Although it might have survived if the console and TV had been plugged into the wall, allowing the current to go to ground, they had unplugged the TV and console meaning the end point for the current was the encoder.

You still get the old 5A and 15A plugs in theatre lighting rigs 🙂

@@FenrisianAle oh yes. I was in rock bands for 45 years and remember seeing them on the par cans before the rig was hoisted up. I suppose they don't want the possibility of the fuse blowing and as they run through a desk it's pretty safe. Damn those lights gave off a lot of heat. Thank God for LEDs.

@@coot1925 well the lights themselves draw their power from the massive dimmer racks, the lighting desk just sends low voltage DMX control signals to the dimmer racks. Yes, given what an arse it is to get to those lights, the last thing you want is having to do so for a blown fuse, it is bad enough for a blow lamp 🙂

Done a few sites were we put in 5a sockets for cabinet lights and decor lighting in high end restaurants

@@paulmerchant9015 yes, there's no reason why one can't adapt to the needs of certain jobs. Personally I would put a label on the socket so that people don't overload it. I worked as a security officer at a conference centre here in the UK which had 234 bedrooms. The fire alarm went off at 2 am and we had to evacuate the building. When I went to investigate the room it was an American student who plugged her hairdryer into an adapter which was not a transformer. The hairdryer was rated for 120 volts and she put 240 volts through it. I found a piece of the motor armature on the floor and her dryer was a blob of plastic. Oh dear. 😂

I actually just think how stupidly over-engineered they are for most modern uses.

@@kellymoses8566 Modern uses like not killing people?

We do have American made electric kettles in the US.

And Electric Toothbrush charger! Also, most, if not all, have two outlets - one for 110v and one for 230v.

@@davidwallin7518 yeah the bathroom sockets are 110v so we dont think that little power needs protection lol ... america is running on a shaving sockets basically !

@@Psylaine64 cant say ive ever used 110, how many appliances would you have to use to trip it?

Shaver sockets have a transformer behind totally isolating the L&N. It also has a 1A fuse. So, no, you cannot plug in a USA hairdryer.

@@Psylaine64 Not really.

Felt the pain just by reading this comment! 😬😂

Way back in the olden days there weren't as many plug sockets. Most rooms had one. So if I wasn't playing with my Scalextric and was instead using my radio the plug would be left on the floor.

@Nickbaldeagle02 So, not really relevant then.

@@Otacatapetl now, no. But in 1979 in a child's bedroom - beware.

We've got two domestic wall-mounted split AC units in our house in SW England. Both have standard plugs and go into standard 13 Amp sockets. Obviously, it would be a different story trying to cool (or heat) commercial premises.

A pincushion of plugs a ratking of wires, that's the stuff I'm used to seeing around the house in the US.

Actually the old round plugs were rated at 5A, (lighting) and usually 15A anything else, Mind you I was very young when we upgraded to the new wiring system for the house and went to the new "square" plugs. We have had 240V as standard since introduced.

There were 5A sockets and physically bigger 15A. Also adapters that had 15A on the front and 5A on the top.

Great explanation hun! .. my surge protection extension lead has switches for each socket too

Just a Lego brick

Just don't unplug it you don't need to that's why we have a switch 😅

Yep the pain is real

😖😖😖That flipping hurts just like lego

Between plugs & lego hun, I'm not sure which is the worst of them!! Both as painful think Hahahahaha