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115V shaver plugs

Why do shaver sockets accommodate round pin plugs in the 115V outlet when countries with 100V to 120V mains supplies use type A plugs with flat pins? Is there a country somewhere with a 100V to 120V mains supply that just so happens to use shavers with round pin plugs?
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  • mapj1:


    Brazil uses round pins for both voltages.

    There are very few 110/120V countries. A few of them just happen to be very influential, and to imagine that everyone else must use their flat pin mains plugs


    A quick search has revealed that Brazil has both 127V and 220V mains supplies and did not have a standard plug and socket until the type N was adopted as standard in 2007. A type N socket will also accommodate a type C plug with two round pins, but were any shavers ever manufactured with a type C plug that ran on 127V?



     

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  • mapj1:


    Brazil uses round pins for both voltages.

    There are very few 110/120V countries. A few of them just happen to be very influential, and to imagine that everyone else must use their flat pin mains plugs


    A quick search has revealed that Brazil has both 127V and 220V mains supplies and did not have a standard plug and socket until the type N was adopted as standard in 2007. A type N socket will also accommodate a type C plug with two round pins, but were any shavers ever manufactured with a type C plug that ran on 127V?



     

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