We've had 'em for a coon's age on this side of the pond, guvnor.

Actually the recharger for the battery for my Canon 40D has a foldable plug. It makes the device more portable and removes the need for wires. Yes, I can live without it, but it is nice.

Actually, the thing that scares me most about europlugs, including the UK one, is that they are 220 V.

I recently replaced the contactor on my heat pump because it was arcing at 240V like a hive of angry hornets.

I don't want that kind of voltage anywhere near my lamp sockets, thank you very much.

I was the type of kid who always played with electricity. I can't count the number of times I have taken 110 volt shocks.

Just once with 220 and I would have been dead. I figure at about age 11.

Just once with 220 and I would have

...a more electrifying personality.

LOL

I once got zapped with 450 DC. Just a hairline crack in the insulator of a probe. The muscles in my arm ached for a week.

As for this plug I think it's pretty cool especially the multiple receptacle. Maybe I'm behind the curve but I haven't seen anything like this before.

I've been hit with the 400~ that the Navy uses in the synchros in their fire control computers. Nasty stuff, too. Much more painful than 60~.

220, 221 whatever it takes.

I work with some pretty high voltages. We have beam supplies for our transmitters that take 480 Volt 3 phase 200 amp into them, and put out 36000 Volts DC.

That stuff will reach out and grab you if your not careful. I don't reach into any cabinet, until I've grounded everything with the jesus stick.

That stuff will reach out and grab you if your not careful.

The rule of thumb I've always gone by is keep 1 inch plus 1 inch away for every 1000 volts on uninsulated live copper.

Our generators put out 4,160 v, but unlike your 36,000 it has some current behind it -- about 700 amps. Not much forgiveness there.

until I've grounded everything with the jesus stick.

Ever melted one of those things? I've seen it happen. A fellow sonar tech was shorting out a bank of capacitors used to store power for sonar transmissions. He thought they were dead, but he tagged and locked out the wrong circuit. Some of the copper in that rod vaporized and I was blinded for several minutes. The stuff that didn't vaporize was in little sand grain sized pellets embedded everywhere in the room -- including our skin.

See, isn't this discussion more interesting than some old folding plug?

See, isn't this discussion more interesting than some old folding plug?

More shocking, for sure

Tell 101chairpuddle that his wish is here!

The folding inflatable custom butt plug. One for the mouth and one....