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International plugs and sockets

Chris Pearson
As we leave the EU, with all its standardization, I am bound to wonder why plugs and sockets have not been subject to this process. It isn't even that we have our funny square pins and the rest have round ones. Type C (2 pin) is common, but earthed plugs are mostly type E or F. IEC site.


Oh well, too late now!
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    You can't have C for current - we need it for Capacitance.

    you can't have E for earth either, we need E for Energy.

    Regarding 'U' instead of V for voltage, the German readers among us may like this dokument    However,  for those that do not, I can translate that the suggestion is that they are not sure but maybe the  U is from the latin ' urgere '  - pressure, in English you get the word  'urgency'  from this root. Note that commonly in German electrical texts,  U is a dc voltage, and u is an AC one.
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    You can't have C for current - we need it for Capacitance.

    you can't have E for earth either, we need E for Energy.

    Regarding 'U' instead of V for voltage, the German readers among us may like this dokument    However,  for those that do not, I can translate that the suggestion is that they are not sure but maybe the  U is from the latin ' urgere '  - pressure, in English you get the word  'urgency'  from this root. Note that commonly in German electrical texts,  U is a dc voltage, and u is an AC one.
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