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

And yes, this is posted as a question. Your client's just broken.

That’s British/Irish style not American style.

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.

@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"

Why did you buy a tv with a uk socket? It's not like it appeared when you brought it home.

@PublicByte not in Sweden

I think I know what happened. You bought it from ikea and didn't assemble it correctly.

I'm offended you confused our supremely engineered 3 pin beauties with that Yankee crap.

@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 😅 Wonder how that works. Don't the UK and EU have different voltages?

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.

@ScriptCoded UK and EU share the 230 V, 50 Hz spec, but thanks to the tolerances, UK is practically still 240 V.

@bittersweet as earlier mentioned, daisy chaining is common in UK. You can see from the photo that the other end is female.

@bittersweet What @electrineer said. It's just a loose cable :)

UK. We have a round ground prong on the side, not a flat one.

We are sure it's not VESA mount thingy, right?

@melezorus34 Yeah. Though that seems to be there as well

Listen here bucko, that ain’t no American plug.... ours don’t look like that.. so fuck off

@QuanticoCEO Well can't you take a photo of your fucking plug, because everyone seems to be so fucking on about it! 😂

How's life treating ya in feminist Sweden?

@FuckTS Don't know, haven't heard of it

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.

@dsteiner That sounds like a smart and dumb idea at the same time :p

@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.

@electrineer almost no tv is grounded. See my attached pic from an LG TV

@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.

Yeah, the antenna port at my exgirlfriends flat is on current as well

@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

@dsteiner @melezorus34 phone and laptop chargers will also give a current-limited shock because of the filter design