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Bad Day
This weeks Macro Mondays theme is Plugs and/or Jacks.
If ever any of your plugs look like this, it is a sure sign that you are having a bad day. Plugs, the male end of a connection, are designed to not allow power or signal to flow until inserted into a jack, or female connection. In the case of power cords, this is for user safety. Imagine if jacks were sticking out of your walls with the mains voltage flowing through them. I would imagine that the world population would be much lower, and house pets would not exist.
The design of power supply systems vary by country throughout the world. I have heard that the design used in the UK has proven to be the safest from a user standpoint. It should be stated that all systems when used correctly are very safe. Most systems have design standards that utilize safety factors many times the output capability of the supply. Case in point, these plugs are designed for a 120 volt system, and in this photo the are flowing 12,000 volts.
HMM.
Best viewed large.
Bad Day
This weeks Macro Mondays theme is Plugs and/or Jacks.
If ever any of your plugs look like this, it is a sure sign that you are having a bad day. Plugs, the male end of a connection, are designed to not allow power or signal to flow until inserted into a jack, or female connection. In the case of power cords, this is for user safety. Imagine if jacks were sticking out of your walls with the mains voltage flowing through them. I would imagine that the world population would be much lower, and house pets would not exist.
The design of power supply systems vary by country throughout the world. I have heard that the design used in the UK has proven to be the safest from a user standpoint. It should be stated that all systems when used correctly are very safe. Most systems have design standards that utilize safety factors many times the output capability of the supply. Case in point, these plugs are designed for a 120 volt system, and in this photo the are flowing 12,000 volts.
HMM.
Best viewed large.