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Why the FUCK is there an American style plug on the backside of our TV?!? AND I'M IN FUCKING SWEDEN

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  • 6
    And yes, this is posted as a question. Your client's just broken.
  • 36
    That’s British/Irish style not American style.
  • 10
    As other have said, the caltrop/weapon is the UK plug. The us has a tiny, fragile 3 or 2 pin configuration without physical 3rd pin gate lock.

    As for why, the same reason that UK tvs ship with the euro two pin: European laws encourage waste.

    However, TIL, that TVs in the UK support dc-daisy chaining.
  • 4
    @Ubbe
    Of this I'm aware ☺️ I always have a "but why?" moment every time I see a UK plug and think "this massive honking fucker has a fuse in it"
  • 7
    Why did you buy a tv with a uk socket? It's not like it appeared when you brought it home.
  • 1
    @PublicByte not in Sweden
  • 11
    I think I know what happened. You bought it from ikea and didn't assemble it correctly.
  • 8
    I'm offended you confused our supremely engineered 3 pin beauties with that Yankee crap.
  • 1
    @electrineer Don't ask me. It's not like it's a TV with switchable plugs either. The actual plug is european style.

    @joycestick @shoop @SortOfTested Yeah yeah yeah, ört me be. I'm just a dumb Swede

    @SortOfTested But hey, thanks, now I know why πŸ˜… Wonder how that works. Don't the UK and EU have different voltages?
  • 3
    I wouldn't care that much about the plug country standard, more about the fact that it looks like a suicide cable? Or am I missing something here? Or is it not designed to supply power to the TV?

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/...

    If it is a suicide cable, it's definitely illegal in the EU.
  • 2
    @ScriptCoded UK and EU share the 230 V, 50 Hz spec, but thanks to the tolerances, UK is practically still 240 V.
  • 3
    @bittersweet as earlier mentioned, daisy chaining is common in UK. You can see from the photo that the other end is female.
  • 1
    @bittersweet What @electrineer said. It's just a loose cable :)
  • 1
    UK. We have a round ground prong on the side, not a flat one.
  • 1
    We are sure it's not VESA mount thingy, right?
  • 1
    @melezorus34 Yeah. Though that seems to be there as well
  • 1
    Listen here bucko, that ain’t no American plug.... ours don’t look like that.. so fuck off
  • 1
    @QuanticoCEO Well can't you take a photo of your fucking plug, because everyone seems to be so fucking on about it! πŸ˜‚
  • 0
    How's life treating ya in feminist Sweden?
  • 1
    @FuckTS Don't know, haven't heard of it
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    Since there is a common 2 pin connector on the other end of the cable I suppose, this is simply a dead end to put the cable in when you’re moving the tv in your house so you don’t have it hanging around.
    I still have no idea why this is a UK plug in Sweden tough.
  • 1
    @dsteiner That sounds like a smart and dumb idea at the same time :p
  • 1
    @dsteiner I don't know if I understood what you mean but no, why would they a cord just to plug in when you are moving the TV. Unless the TV itself has a C8 connector which means it's not connected to earth, which I hope is not the case.
  • 3
    @electrineer almost no tv is grounded. See my attached pic from an LG TV
  • 1
    @dsteiner now that I checked, mine isn't either. TVs usually have plastic cases so they don't need to be grounded. I remember getting zapped by touching grounded antenna cable and the antenna connector on the TV in an old house with no earth connection in sockets. I wonder if that TV assumed earthed sockets or if the zaps were by design.
  • 1
    Yeah, the antenna port at my exgirlfriends flat is on current as well
  • 1
    @electrineer that should be design because LNB ring does the same thing to you if you try to olug it while the TV/reciever is on
  • 1
    @dsteiner @melezorus34 phone and laptop chargers will also give a current-limited shock because of the filter design
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