American Reacts to WHY British Plugs and Outlets Are the BEST in the World..

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[joshallison]

Another Brit here, those downsides were really clutching. We don’t unplug things and leave them on the floor to stand on, they have a switch so we just leave things plugged in 😂

[thabood]

In 8 years as a UK electrician I have never heard one person talk about "load balancing" on a ring circuit. From all outlets, the current flows in both directions back to the origin, regardless of where on the ring they are placed.

[xi]

I'm 34 and I live in the UK, and I've only stepped on a plug twice and it's painful enough that you learn to not leave things unplugged where you are likely to step. Plus usually in most situations we leave them plugged in and just use the switches to turn them off.

[mjsvr]

I can't believe I watched a reaction video to plugs, but it was fascinating! Makes me proud to be British - we're pretty advanced over here, we build our houses out of bricks too

[rhyshirah]

As a Brit, one other thing to mention is that we're taught as children how to wire and change fuses in our plugs so we can do basic maintenance if needed xD

[Manhuasfans]

I live in Kenya and we have these plugs😂. I would like to add that it fits behind furniture pretty well since it is a few millimetres away from the wall.

[JonathanLungley]

Another Brit here. Another interesting point not covered in the instructional movie is the colour of the wires.
If you have a damaged plug or wire and need to replace the plug and are unsure what terminal the wires connect to try to remember this. The wire has three colours, green blue and brown. When you remove the back of the plug there are three terminals Top, Bottom Left and Bottom Right The first two letters of the word Brown are BR and = Bottom Right. The first two letters of Blue are BL and = Bottom Left. The last remaining wire is green and goes in the last remaining terminal at the top. Hope that simplified wiring a plug and prevents any shorts from a rewire.
Kind regards Jonathan

[ChaoticTeen]

Another Brit here. The smug sense of proxy-satisfaction at how good our Electrical Plugs are compared to just about any other feels so damn good!

[HBee]

He really went all out there trying to think of some bad points lol. The thing with having the switch on the outlet is that you never have to unplug the appliance, so you never step on any plugs and the size of them is something you'll never even think about as they're flat against the wall.

[simonbarnes]

I've lived with both. The plug size may be larger but the wire coming out the bottom makes it so you can actually use them in smaller spaces than the us style. Also the standing issues is rare. We don't unplug stuff really

[WaynesWorldUnlimited]

Yes, I’m a British person. We leave all our plugs, usually plugged in the wall and we have a switch on off. Much easier. Plus each plug contains a different fuse depending on the current. Which makes it so far.

[snuggleseal]

Watching an American be impressed with our British plugs is what I needed for this Saturday morning

[pogglefishii]

The load balance thing is rarely an issue - most houses and appartements use more than one ring main for that exact reason so (for example) the kitchen which may well have the most high demand things in it (microwave, toaster, washing machine etc) will be a separate ring to the rest of downstairs, and downstairs will be a separate ring to upstairs and so forth. As such, in the UK, you can pretty much plug anything that has a normal plug into any socket in your house without any issue at all.

[scrappystocks]

Ok the plugs are bigger and robust but they are also ergonomically designed to make them easy to grip and pull out of the socket outlet. As someone who lived on the west coast of the US for a while I can say there was a tendency to use the cable to pull the plug out of the outlet, putting strain on the cable and plug. The design of the US plugs also means the first part of the cable sticks out from the plug into the room at 90 degrees to the wall, whereas on a UK plug the cable comes out close and parallel to the wall making it much neater, or tidier, and with possibly less chance of it being a tripping hazaerd

[TheWRETRO]

As a semi retired UK electrician working in a factory building and Pat testing products built to go to places all over the world, I teach anyone new how to properly wire a plug. And always say the UK plug is the best designed safest plug in the world and explain why too, which is what your finding out in this video.
Italian Swiss and Chinese/Australian plug sets are very similar (without fuse) which we supply for each export product. Common misconception is the US with 110v sounds safer being half 230v but its the increase in Amps on 110v that will hurt ya not just the volts 😆
Also a beauty of the UK plug is you can install a suitable size (amp) fuse to "blow" before electrical damage to your product, example being you wouldn't put a 13amp on a product drawing only 3amps 😊
Great video and thanks for the appreciation of the safest & best plug design in the world.

[colinbradders]

As an electrician in the uk. Loads are not really an issue on a ring as the appropriate gauge wire is used with the correct size breaker and also discrimination is built in to those calculations so that a full loaded circuit is perfectly cable of carrying the full 80 percent load at all times.

Kitchens require a separate circuit so heavy loads are on a separate circuit there

Also most appliances carrying a large load will switch fuse unit so that the fuse breaks before the cable is damaged by any load exceeding 13 amps (most circuits for power are wired in 2.5 mm capable of withstanding 27 amps).

[tobygroves]

"Wiring a plug" is a kind of rite of passage for Brits and is one of the first things you learn to do in DIY (or home improvement as you probably call it over there)

[willscott]

It's amazing what we take for granted here in the UK, watching your reaction gave me a whole new respect for something as simple as plug

[therealfodder]

"I can't believe I've just watched a 10+ minute video on plugs".

I've just watched a 20+ minute video reacting to a 10+ minute video on plugs. And it was bloody great! Makes me very proud and I shall now sing God Save the King every time I plug in the toaster.

[gamingtonight]

Mayor benefits HUGE, disadvantages TOTALLY minor. But hey, Americans need negatives to make them feel good about themselves!