![[EU] I want to replace an old multi-socket but the majority of the ones sold today don't have this pin? Why is that and does that mean they are not connected to the ground?](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/646a06d0-f730-4cd3-9ee6-2b7c66fe3a9f.jpeg){kind=link}
I’ve always known these with pins, or are they replaced by those two tiny plates on the side?
Edit: example of one of the most sold models https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/387671120546
I’ve always known these with pins, or are they replaced by those two tiny plates on the side?
Edit: example of one of the most sold models https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/387671120546
Each country developed its own plug system in Europe. This looks like a French CEE 7 type plug - its asymmetrical fixed earth point creates wiring compatibility problems where the poles are wired differently in different countries. A lot of domestic appliances now use the German Schuko plug type as an answer to this problem (the earth is on the circumference edge pins)
I know you’re not wrong but I’ve always heard that pin called “ground” instead of “earth” in English
In US English Ground is used to signify Earth. But if you said Ground in England people would understand what you meant.
I guess to be fair, most of my time working with electronics was alongside the USN so that makes sense
Earth is usually used in British English, I don’t know about elsewhere.