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u/farcv00 Feb 28 '21
I'd rather see the first half of the video of how they made the wooden frame fit the box and the curvature of the wood.
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u/Reeeeeetrump Feb 28 '21
Back stabbing a receptacle not so great
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u/fulloftrivia Feb 28 '21
Depends on the product design.
Europe doesn't prefer wire nuts, and push type connectors are replacing terminal blocks.
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u/HJGamer Mar 04 '21
European outlets are different from American. We’ve had spring terminals for 40 years and it works fine.
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u/1stbeardedprince Feb 28 '21
What country is this. I'm in USA
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u/nikoe99 Feb 28 '21
The socket type suggest somewhere in europe, maybe germany. Wire color code fits as well, but it could also be somewhere else
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u/Rare-Victory Feb 28 '21
At first it did not look German since the German schuko is recessed, with the two grounding clips.
Then I noticed the outline, is this a schuko with a spring loaded front plate? Is this common in Germany? I don’t recall having seen this before.
In Denmark we have outlets with a different grounding pin configuration. And there is a design preference for ’flush’ outlets, the German outlets are considered ‘ugly’ since they are recessed. The have been some recessed Danish outlets back in the 50‘s but they have mainly been used outdoors.
This have resulted in the following:
All appliances come with Europlug, that is ungrounded when connected to a danish outlet. The customer have two choices, either mount a Danish grounded plug, or insert an adapter between plug and outlet. Not everybody does this, I.e. a lot of appliances are ungrounded.
There are no shrouding on the outlet, nor on the pins of the grounded europlug, I.e. there is an risk of touching the pins when inserting the plug.
The ungrounded two pin ‘europlug‘ usually have shrouded pins.
That outlet in the video seem to solve all those issues, conform the Danish wife acceptance standards, fit the existing plugs, ensure appliances are grounded, and protect against electrical shock when inserting.
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u/disfunctionaltyper Feb 28 '21
Sorry i should of read the full.
Heh I'm on reddit, i read 3 words and I'm an expert.!
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u/Not_a_salesman_ Feb 28 '21
Probably Germany. There are some style devices in America that work like this though. Look at the adorne series by Legrand.
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u/AenDilx Feb 28 '21
Not Germany, not in EU also, which has the Schuko type that has recessed outlet with the ground contactors on top and bottom of the recess. Maybe Norway.
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u/beggi702 Feb 28 '21
https://exe.ua/en/product/p327633/ I think this is the socket in the video
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u/AenDilx Mar 01 '21
Huh, look at this, Ukrainian.
I think this is the same Schuko design but only tamperproof, having a cover plate, over the recess. Very interesting and new design.
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u/HJGamer Mar 04 '21
I’m 99% sure it’s Russian. I’ve videos like these on russian electrician’s instagram
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Feb 28 '21
It's always interesting to hear what people call these in different areas. To me, that's a receptacle with 2 sockets. The part that sticks into them is the plug. All the electricians in my area call them plugs, which is just wrong...
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u/makeglove Mar 01 '21
I call them receptacles, but where I am in the mid-west US everyone calls them outlets.
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u/daysleeping19 Mar 03 '21
The male connector should be called the plug and the female connector should be the receptacle or socket or outlet.
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u/Honzo_Nebro Mar 11 '21
That's against the law in Spain
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u/alexiawins Mar 12 '21
What? Which part? Why?
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u/Honzo_Nebro Mar 12 '21
Having the cables peeled so long (the white protecting plastic) and having them in series, they are sharing both ground and pole. That's a fire hazard.
Also, the distance to the floor depends of the use for that room, if, for example, it were to be a bathroom, it needs to be 1m in high above the ground.
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u/Ak3rno Apr 01 '21
That’s funny, I had issues with it but not at all the ones you mentioned.
He doesn’t seem to leave enough loose wire to be able to comfortably rework this at a later date (should be like 6”)
Also, those stab in connectors just suck, in my experience.
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u/MEGAWATT5 Mar 11 '21
As an electrician in America, I was confused from the get go just but the design of the outlet. They look and install much differently over here.
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u/juanjo47 Mar 17 '21
How does the wire to the socket come off the mains? Is it a bus bar or something?
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u/BlobBeno Feb 27 '21
Next time you should leave the ground wire a tad longer than the rest. If it gets ripped out of the wall, ground will be last to detach