Power Outlets in United Kingdom
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2019
- I’ve heard that electrical system in UK is super safe, but how super?
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"Hey cousin, long time no see! Where's your breaker box??"
LoL
His cousin my absolutely love him haha!
Hey cousin. Want to go bowling?
What was the music name?
@@skuula They are called torches in the UK, not flashlights.
They switched to gas street lighting as back up in preparation for your arrival.
haha actually those are protected historic artefacts lookup.london/london-gas-lighting/
@@molybdomancer195 thanks for the link, fascinating reading and a link to an interesting British Gas article chatting with the lamp lighters. I'd always assumed these historic lamp posts had some sort of led mock mantle in them not still running on gas. Good to know!
@@molybdomancer195 so stupid, yeah let's just continue burning gas for lamps that don't even illuminate 5m²
@@LuluTheCorgi it's probably for aesthetics rather than utility.
@@dominicjose3660 which is stupid, there is no need to burn gas just for a shitty street lamp what the fuck
A lot of people always say "bulky british plugs". But I always argue against that. Ok, they're a little wider and taller than for example North American, and from my own experience, Australia too. However! Pretty much all UK plugs have the wire come directly down rather than sticking out perpendicular to the wall, which means is actual practice, they take up LESS space, because you can get your furniture closer to the wall, and you don't have an annoying wire sticking out the wall to trip over easily. UK plugs are a lot more shallow and that completely offsets the width and height.
This is actually twofold. The downward direction of the cable ALSO means it tends to lock when it's pulled away from the wall. It puts a lateral load on the plug and the pins bite into their holes and don't just pull out. So not only is it neater, but also MUCH harder to pull out accidentally. In fact, I never have!
What he said about standing on a plug though, he's right. Lego, step down, you are not the foot pain king, the British upturned plug is. Ouch!
@@ChrisThomas-lt8jd Every time I hear something about foreign plugs I have a mild panic attack, not having switches (do Americans not get the ritual OCD from their parents about turning off the damn socket!?!), not having a longer ground pin to stop electrocution, not having fuses in the plug, I never even thought about the size and shape, I have never accidentally pulled a plug out of the wall or extension, I have never had to worry about furniture being in the way.
I did once trip and fall onto a pile of old cables once and landed on like 6 of the fuckers though...
Also, we don't generally have plugs lying around on the floor because we can just turn the socket off instead of pulling it out.
@@pdgiddie Good point. We're also not, you know, stupid 👍
@@ChrisThomas-lt8jd Haven't trodden on an Irish/UK plug yet but I have done it on a kiwi [NZ] plug - when I was much much younger - and it hurts, A LOT. Same plug but without the fuse and upside down pins.
As an electrician, I was watching some of your antics through my fingers. 30mA is deemed the minimum that would stop a human heart. The bathroom adaptors are isolating transformers 1:1, so 230 in 230 out but the output has no reference to earth. Our 13A plugs are the world's best IMO, but a bugger to stand on in bare feet in the dark.
Most defibs give you somewhere in the vague range of 40 amps of current. We want to shut your heart down so that it restarts simultaneously and stops fibrillating.
is that 30mA applied directly to the heart tissue?
@@KarldorisLambley I believe its a current path from arm to arm across the chest.
@@briwire138 aha. Thanks for your reply. Wow 30mA isn't much at all
RCDs are designed to shut off fast enough that 30 mA shouldn't be lethal
*Blows all outlets in room*
"So basically, I just ran away"
Nitro Gaming lel
So anyway, I started running
Not just his room all of the rooms in the area, they share the RCD.
Lol
Wow
Normal people vacation : "wah! This place is amazing!"
Electroboom: "wow! This plug so wierd"
😂😂😂😂
"yeah yeah, this city is very nice. where is the breaker box in my hotel room"
Wired*
You were asking for a pun with that shocking misspell
Do the European socket next!
UK plugs are widely known to be the safest electrical outlets and connectors in the world.
It's the one thing we do right!
Fun fact- UK plugs are actually only held together with 1 screw (in the middle). The other 2 screws (at the bottom) clamp the cable to stop it coming out of the plug.
Not only uk its used in India also only with a round shape of the tip
Missed perhaps the biggest key safety feature of British plugs; they are flush to the wall and the wire points downwards, so it is almost impossible to knock them out or half out. US 2 pin plugs easily get knocked or bent sideways or downwards, exposing the live parts or just really annoyingly losing connection.
Normal People on vacation: this place is so nice let's go to the gift shops!
Electroboom: where the hell is the breaker box
F.B.I And the fbi is here. Are you going to arrest him?
Tyson Jordan no
Oh shit its the fbi
Is illegal to use mp3 converter?
Lmao
If you're new here, he's immortal.
MrSis
Thank you for telling me, I got genuinely worried for his health,,
Oh ok
What was the music name?
MrSis 😂😂😂😂 100% correct
@@full5339 The Soviet National anthem, if you're talking about the music at 0:02
(As a Brit I am shocked and in tears with laughter at this)
0:10 this didn't age very well....
Was he a perver
@@turnip5359 Boy was pretty much
Oh my god, this guy is hilarious 😂! Imagine going on a trip to a foreign country and the first thing you do is short circuit your outlet causing all the breakers to pop
He´s a menace to society! I like it!
@@Biden_is_demented So many tourist might spend nights under unsafe fire detectors or unsound cabling or without breaker boxes. It is important.
Not an electrician, not even a little bit, but when he put the plug with the wire “bridge” in the socket and it blew, he had the switch on. Then he complained that the switch was, “redundant, and not a proper breaker”. Wouldn’t you have to have the switch off to test it’s ability to stop a short? Nobody said the switch _was_ a breaker, but if you’re gonna test it, test it right, maybe?
Hotel staff hate him find out how one man blew up an entire hotel with this simple trick
ISmokeNerfDarts lol
XD
😂😂😂🤣
We should all do that 😁
I like how this entire video is: "Wow, nice safety, now let me get around it"
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1,000th like
@Robot Man HOW DARE YOU! Lol
@Robot Man Lolololololol
@Robot Man But I mean I’m not 1,000th anymore
0:14 that one didn't age quite so well
The only benefit of UK plugs that you didn’t mention is that Type G plugs are really hard to pull out of the wall by accident compared to the Type A plugs.
Coming with the bonus fun that whatever expensive item you were charging is now speeding towards your ankle at speed! :D
**shorts hotel circuitry**
“Well I basically ran away”
Lol
*Shows footage of surroundings* that was such a perfect moment 😂
*shorts entire hotel*
"Well, that certainly wasn't me."
So anyway I started running
"Hotel has to fix that for me" lol
uk: has one of the safest plugs in the world
electroboom: still manages to nearly kill himself and trip the breaker of his hotel
They look safe until you step on them
@@sebastianrakowski1583 can you base that on fact or is that just your opinion?
@@sebastianrakowski1583
You are a disgrace to your nation. Many brave Poles fought alongside the UK in WW2. And all you do is make fun. Our economy is much bigger than yours and always will be!
codprawn What's WW2/1 got to do with a argument with power plugs
Sebastian Rakowski Idiot!
That gas street light is the only one left in the UK powered by sewer gas!, that is why it is lit 24 7. They used to be common in cities but with the advent of washing detergents and cleaning bleaches much less gas is produced in our sewer systems. Great vid as usual.
"...but with the advent of washing detergents and cleaning bleaches much less gas is produced in our sewer systems."
Interesting.
In the UK, your "outlets" are only ever called SOCKETS. An outlet is a shop selling goods direct from the manufacturer and cutting out the retailer.
Is it really so difficult to understand the usage of the word? Must you also insist on being such an arrogant ass? Is it a requirement for a brit?
To be fair, a lot of people call them "plug-sockets". That's how you know they're not really into the subject matter.
Never allow your electrician cousin to stay at your home
nah idk looks like allot of fun
He would probably end up having a chat with my father, who also is an electrician
sharma sharma **electromaniac
if he does what he did in brazil... holy fuck the house/apartament would be on fire
Electrical engineer
Electroboom: I'll wait until I get to my cousin's house.
*RIP cousin's house*
RIP cousin's entire neighbourhood
@@Javierm0n0 RIP the supplying powerplant
You have never seen photonic induction have you? Now he can pull down the national grid easily.
@@metalhead2476 he has his indian wife now.... Us viewers mean nothing to him in my eyes. I also miss him he was a legend.. WE POPPED IIIIT!
The British outlet is considered “the safest plug in the world” because of its many safety mechanisms
You literally proved just how far behind North America is by technological standards. It's sad that there are so many shadow lurking dangers that people just don't know about and could possibly die from. North America needs to get its act together. I studied electronics and electricity in North America and I can definitely say I have seen flaws in safety standards.
In a 'totally unrelated' point: American Healthcare is very profitable for the companies involved.
@@richardrussell7082 fair point indeed. There is money in death.
They don't lack technology, they just don't want to adopt the same safety standards and regulations. Building redundancy into your system costs money, but it saves lives. I know I prefer the UK approach, even if we don't have proper sockets in the bathroom.
@@Shyndree yeah. North America isn't interested in saving lives. A simple master GFCI for buildings in general would be safer, but nope. It's cheaper to cut corners and take risks without a care.
I really dont think Americans are behind UK in terms of tech. But there are some oddities, like them NEVER having chip and pin, or debit cards in general. Americans just have a different attitude to safety vs personal freedom. Whilst in the states (San Jose), I saw a nice sofa in a store, and a window notice read "This sofa's foam contains known carcinogens, you buy at your own peril" Now in UK, that foam just would not be allowed in anything if it was KNOWN to cause cancer.
This is also why shotguns, min-guns and so on are given away in cereal packets over there. So the little tiddlers there can exercise their freedom as they see right (joke....).
(or is it...)
Mehdi at his cousins: What do you want, tea or coffee?
Mehdi: "Power Socket"
Still, I'm glad he managed to gain access to the breaker box.
Breaker box
Hi
capacitor electrolytes
consumer unit
It takes a lot of effort and imagination to overcome a UK plug and nearly start an electrical fire. My congratulations...
@John Ashtone In fairness, it depends how old it is - they might be on fuse wire, plenty places here significantly pre-date modern breaker boxes! (And yes, I mean fuse wire, not just pre-made fuses. It's a whole different world of ways to mess up :D )
There safe until u step on the prongs
@@asharak84 Fuse wire in a hotel? I very much doubt it.
Best plugs in the world
@@jondonnelly4831 you can run two heaters off a double socket no problem. Off one, well adverts are run not to do that.
Those shaver sockets in the bathroom are actually completely galvanically isolated with a 1:1 and/or 2:1 wound transformer inside them, that's why they're so strangely large.
Before the middle ages and the invention of the Iron Maiden torture device, people were forced to walk barefoot across rooms with floors coated with upturned 3 pin plugs.
"hey cousin, thanks for having me. ...where's the breaker box?"
cousin:...what?
Cousin: I don't know. But I have one on my crotch, want to try it?
you can't read the quote without Mehdi's voice in your head... at least for me though
By now I'll bet he's been blacklisted by the hotel industry.
And black listed by his cousin too...😛😂😂😂
@UNIX Man you from Lincoln too?
He killed a power outlet in a hotel. Now, he is "Excommunicado".
@@alpha5782 ok bud whatever u say
Ian Ferreira
He is
John Wick
The plastic on the lower part of the pins is to prevent small fingers touching the live parts when inserting or withing the plug. NOT FOR WRAPPING WIRE ROUND.
Thank you 'popping' over in the UK. Also thanks for adding such beautiful video clips.
Come back anytime.
*And he was never invited back to his cousins house ever again.*
:( Stitch
Who said he was invited in the first place?
D.A. Syam r/wooosh
@@durkdaberkferkderkfuck9178 that's most stupid whoosh I've seen till date
Maximal Crazy I know lol
"Hotel managers hate this trick."
*misdemeanour
I'm loving this travelling series.. I know it's not current so to speak.. But this guy has made so many videos that I can travel back in time and still catch the ingenious yet silly shenanigans of Medhi. Fellow Canadian here.
Speaking as a UK citizen. This is the best thing ive seen on you tube in forever.
ElectroBOOM : "Hi today we're travelling to United Kingdom"
Me : "So thats why the power went off!"
😂
LMAO. A wind farm and a power station failed almost simultaneously I see now their brakers tripped!
What a coincidence...
When was that big national power issue, 9th August wasn't it?
lol it's funny because of the blackouts a couple of weeks ago. www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/16/national-grid-blackout-report-avoidable-faults-blamed
I guess we should call him Avoidable Faults now.
Remember kids, always shorten a foreign hotel outlet to establish dominance
*don't tempt me*
@@Sillimant_ you have a anime profile pic so you won't do it anyway
@@realcartoongirl you do too
Arthur Salim lol
😂😂
** as a Brit I can confirm that there is no worse pain known than stepping on an upturned plug **
I am old enough to remember when the live and neutral pins did not have the plastic sheathing. I did once shock myself when i wrapped my fingers round a plug when pulling it out of the socket. (This would have been a few decades ago.)
Did that myself in the 80s. Got a right tingle and my arm ached for days.
“I better not make any shorts!”
*THIRTY SECONDS LATER*
*SHORTS EVERY HOTEL BREAKER*
Lmao
#Oof #Whoops
*london instantly knew electroboom started hacking electricity*
now all of UK knows you're here
Yes we know... we watch the video!!! Why do people like you have to make comments like this??
Your trip just happened to coincide with the largest power cut here (UK) for nearly 15years..... Come on what else did you do 😂
In Oakham we were enjoying our life then *pop* power gone
My mum called the electric company and they said it would take an hour for Rutland power to come back
Luckily it only took 10 to 20 minutes
he really broke a whole countries electricity system with these experiments
He TRIPped the circuit...
Man, you were affected too!?
Jonjoe M-Walton hold up. American here. Can anybody elaborate on this power cut?
The shaver socket will be on the 5 amp circuit. Glad you enjoyed your trip to the UK, and the wonderful weather we have here.
Also electrical outlets in bathrooms are also supposed to have isolation transformers. If you plug a shaver or adapter in, it is often possible to hear a buzzing sound coming from the transformer.
Thats what that noise is! I always wondered why it 'buzzed' when I put my electric toothbrush charger in.
Hey can i get a room
Service:yes heres your key sir
"10 min later"
*power goes out in hotel*
"Man runs out of the hotel"
Service: wtf
LMAO
A man trying to short all power outlet in hotels hahaha
That did make me Laugh out Loud, that was so funny.
I thought you were joking and then I watched the video.
Plz don't die
When wiring a UK plug brown is live, because that's what colour your trousers go if you touch it.
-Tom Scott
webchimp Actually that wire was quite unusual for modern regs. Usually they follow the IEC or CENELEC rules: Earth is green/yellow striped. Neutral is light blue. Lives are any other color but usually first live is brown.
They may also be brown if someone with a weird fetish was playing around with them ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@ElectricityTaster That's...
Absolutely disgusting.
That gas lamp runs off of the fumes from the sewers, there are loads around London 😊
Those gas lamps are actually vents from the sewerage system. There was one on the way to my school. They burn 24\365. It was felt safer to burn it off at the high spots in the network where, otherwise, it might accumulate, back up and explode on Uncle John, lighting his cigar on the john, like a Russian sailor on a cruiser.
You don't wanna tell people at airports that your channel is electro BOOM
Wait till they hear someone with the word "water" on someone's channel name.
HA i get it
LOL
Oh..I thought my comment got buried lol
@** -
YES , especially on fights to Israel, they are extra paranoid (they even use Racial Profiling for "security reasons") -... for them "ElectroBOOM" sounds like AlQuaeda
You blew up the hotel socket? I guess that explains the recent power outage at kings cross station.
Really?
@@nowneothanielverse it's called a joke
No, that must have something to do with wizards visiting it all the time
@@gudadada I'm not updated with world news and apparently some of us forget other countries exist.
@@nowneothanielverse you still missed the joke. the joke is the hotel socket affecting a station. obviously there's no correlation
We also have ring mains (daisy chaining sockets so a live, neutral and earth come from both ends of chain) USA uses spurs (a chain of sockets fed with electricity at just 1 end) no overload protection, put a lot of appliances on that spur and the wires will no doubt get hot and could even catch fire.
You plug at 6 minutes was missing the cable clamp. There should be a clamp across the exit held down by the two smaller screws that stops the cable from being pulled out.
"We are traveling to United Kingdom!"
_Soviet Anthem plays_
Ay cyka, are you a western spy
As a brit, I couldn't help but laugh
Napalm Flame You up at 1AM too then?
@@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou Yep, just another day at the office as far as things go!
Confirmed the united kingdom are communists
Normal people visiting oversea familly: Hey, how are you? Let's have a drink so we can talk!
Electroboom : WHERE THE BREAKERZ BOX?!
Do you think there's a full bridge rectifier in that breaker box?
Perfect! You win!
The most impressive thing was that damned squirrel!
😂 love it
Thomas Nagy: let me open this and see how it's wired, because they do it differently to what we do in UK.
Shaver sockets in the UK also contain an isolation transformer completely isolating the supply from earth, this means if you manage to touch a live conductor you don't get a shock because there is no circuit completed by earth.
The switches on the outlets are not redundant at all. The main use really is to turn an electrical item off without unplugging it. Handy lol
Quite - many of my extension cords have individual switches too, because it's just useful.
Having to physically plug/unplug something like Christmas lights everyday is much more of a chore.
UK: safest plug type, with RCD protection
ElectroBOOM: challenge accepted.
As a North American citizen, I can say that in my childhood I have touched both prongs of a plug while pulling it out. It was an uncomfortable zap where I could feel the alternating current, but I was fine. Needless to say it was a good lesson and I've been more careful since then. The UK plug is a good design, but how else will the children learn to not mess with electricity before they move on to harder stuff? Little Timmy might cut open a transformer to harvest the copper for drug money and be shocked with transmission voltage!
@@Maptologist While you were touching your north american plugs, Little Timmy in UK doesn't want to do that 'cause double voltage
@@Nikkizzz Under the same circumstances, Little Timmy wouldn't have been able to complete such a circuit, as his thumb and forefinger would only touch plastic. You all (y'all) in the UK have deadly house voltage because the infrastructure couldn't handle more amps at lower voltage. Therefore, complicated plugs and other safety standards were constructed around such an unsafe system.
@@Maptologist most of the world uses 240v, we just do it best. The UK invested a huge amount of money to change the plug design after the war to make things much safer. Very few people ever get electrocuted in the UK because it's very hard to do so. American wiring is awful and is an incredibly old design which they have never bothered to replace.
@@JamesGrogan2 Most of the world use 220v UK is one of the only places that uses 240/250v
go to UK for holiday (X)
go to UK to check their Power Outlets (✓)
Go to UK for Rectifying everything
Like 600! WOOHOO! FUCK ALLAH FUCK MUHAMMAD FUCK ISLAM!!!!!!
@@mahrufurrahman9759 Huh
Mahrufur Rahman
I'm really not sure I follow. I mean, its your opinion, but voicing it in this situation was so unexpected, its almost like it was entirely unrelated to the original comment.
@@jameswalker199 lol
I can just imagine what the front desk at a hotel thinks when they recognize him checking in. They're probably "Oh fuck, not this guy. We better warn the maintenance staff..." LOL
The usa 3 prong socket has its own exact adapet you buy before your trip
The ones in the airport tend to be multiple types of socket thats why they cant use a real earth as it can be used for over 8 plug types
On the phone to hotel receptionist: _"Is the breaker box accessible from the room?"_
"No, I didn't pop the RCD. Why would you..."
"*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*" (Yes, Electroboom managed to edit life)
Imagine if one of the hotel staff stumbles upon this video and finds out who blew up their outlet
👁️ 👄 👁️
@@jamieocarroll6804 thigh pain
Well 1. He's not in the UK anymore, what are they gonna do
And 2. It's just a breaker. He didn't destroy anything
Cleaning woman hears a bang from the room next door. Steps out into the hallway and notices a guy leaving the room in a hurry! Upon calling security, they discover burn marks on the wall and a whiff of smoke hanging in the air. Electroboom gets picked off the street, and has to explain his YT training videos to the nice people at MI5!
@@Xnoob545 He burnt and blackened a socket outlet. I know from experience that when that happens in that way (a thin wire caught between the pins) you cannot clean the mess up. The socket has to be replaced.
My Dad finds you hilarious. Please stay safe
The main safety feature of UK plugs versus NA plugs is that we don't have NA inhabitants operating them.
... and you may enjoy that poor jest, much like yourself.
Britons currently don’t have much room for IQ jokes.
The national power cut we had a few weeks ago makes a lot more sense now I know electroBOOM was over here
sean9234 who knows what else he blowed lol.
That powercut interrupted me watching a minecraft video on end cities!
i didn't notice this, Western Power Distribution must've been actually doing their jobs!
He was probably on that power line that went bang when they blew up the Didcot power station cooling towers!
Mehdi: Today im travelling to the UK!!
National Grid: *guard all our powerstations and houses, NOW*
🤣
God this cracked me up , thanks :)
😂😂😂
When did he go, we had a big outage recently...?
The switches are for convenience. So that you can turn whatever appliance off at the plug rather than having to pull the plug out.
safer for the plug and safer for your feet lmao
It also means that you don't create an arc (big blue flash) when you remove/insert a plug. This can slightly damage plugs and outlets if done repeatedly.
Also, the ground rod in the plug is longer than the other two, so ground is connected first
ElectroBoom: “Hi, I’d like a room with breakers.”
Hotel Clerk: “God save us!”
Kakashimoto nice PFP, mind if i stole it?
@@NxVernxual
No I don't !
God save us? God save the Queen!
Call the Queen...
Hotel: _How can we help you_
E.B.: _I'd like a room_
Hotel: _Dear god no!_
"I can't find the breaker box, so I better not short anything"
"SO I PUT THIS WIRE BETWEEN THE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE PRONGS"
It's Live/Hot and Neutral in AC you Dumbo
@@jammehrmann1871 bro please be polite somepeople dont know about it so
It's a stupid mistake and dumbo isn't a really offensive word, also I get triggered as an electrician seeing this
Of course even i got trigerd as an electronics Enthusiast but there are people out there like this we need to tell them
😂😂😂
When computer power supplies had a little red toggle switch for 110/230v my colleagues in USA would send over equipment which would instantly and spectacularly explode when I plugged it in. I did eventually learn after blowing up a few bits of expensive kit. Happy days.
here in malaysia we do adopt the electrical system from united kingdom. the plugs are all the same.
Bahaha, 3 minutes in and I think you may get kicked out of the UK
It took you three minutes? After 3 seconds he blends in the Union Jack and plays the soviet anthem.
@@dr.robertnick9599 it's called humor! =P
Robert Forslund bad bot
Who want for Mr. ElectroBOOm to do the same in the country of Venezuela and see if the crazy conspiracy theories of the dictatorship regarding the blackouts holds true after such a power shorting?
@@dr.robertnick9599 This is the UK, we really don't care about such things as a piece of cloth.
I like how he shows the beauty whenever he does something that could get him in trouble
Hi, a proper MK socket even if you push the earth door slider down, the doors of Live and Neutral doesn't open, the two pins (L&N) must simultaneously be pushed against their own doors before they open, you can't push one of them open on it's own.
Keep up the good work 👍
some of the few Gas lamps still in use in London are powered by sewer gas, they were put there to remove potentially explosive gases in a safe way!
Middle eastern guy carrying a lot of electrical / electronics testers. Trips the breakers of them TSA’s 😂
It's OK we were watching him from the moment he landed.
*iranian* ;D
Hmm, are there power outlets on airplane? Or what about using ESD tester on media center?
No point in telling them you are preparing Ramavan...
My dad always said that a good electric engineer always has a multimeter with themselves
As an Englishman, I can confirm treading on one of our plugs is worse than treading on Lego.
As an British I approve of this gentleman's words
Yeah and the recovery can take over an hour if you tread with force.
Can confirm, stood on one as a teenager and felt my soul instantly leave my body.
You know the buckle on a belt right? You know the middle bit? That little prong you put in the hole? Well my belt was on the floor and that but was stuck up and when I was getting changed I stood on it and it went right into my foot
I have yet to experience it but I await the day with fear
Thank you for your wonderful video about Cirencester (10.47). The rest of the stuff about electricity and all that was pretty good too, if a little distracting from the great beauty of Cirencester at 10.47, as I said, though it never quite made it to 10.48...
The reason why each UK plug has fuses is because historically and still is today , work on ring circuits vs branch to save on copper .... (some countries that uses the UK plug have converted to branch circuit systen today)
Radial circuits are common in the UK too, and the other reason that fused plugs were adopted is to properly protect thin line cords as you might find on a table lamp. That means a 5A cable does not have to rely on a 16A circuit breaker. On the old BS546 standard, there were four different plug sizes. 3A, 5A, 15A and the (very rare) 30A. The aim was to have the convenience of a single plug size without sacrificing protection for smaller appliances and thin flexi cords. It did, also facilitate 30A ring circuits, which is a bonus, especially in kitchens, but some electricians now prefer to deploy 32A radial circuits using 4 sq mm cable. They might then do the rest of the house on 16A or 20A radial using 25 sq mm cabling. Current loads tend to be lower now with central heating, but prior to the seventies, portable electric space heaters were common.
We may need to rethink our power outlets here in the UK. We thought that we had come up with a safe system. Unfortunately we didn't account for this guy turning up to do "tests".
Lmfao
A engineer's proverb since time immemorial: "make it idiot-proof, and they'll make a smarter idiot"
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@@Geolaminar LOL LOL
@@camaroman101 who is lmfao
This dude has literally made a living out of doing everything you're not supposed to with electricity.
It is a wonder he is still alive.
@@Frankhe78 99% of it is safely faked for dramatic and educational purposes.
He definitely knows what he's doing.
@@MrHidethecheese And that's why we all love him ;-)
he's doing in the name of science
@@MrHidethecheese big facepalm if you think its faked. It aint.
In the UK, most wall sockets are wired to 13 amp, which means they can pull just over 3kw before they blow the fuse. on 110v that'd be 28.3 amp
for the switches - we have specific ones for stuff like stoves and washing machines in the kitchen, cause u cant access the plug obviously. if anything goes wrong or the devices play up, you can give them an out time that way or even reset them.
Every time he says “Nothing should happen” I fully expect something to happen
*everything to happen
When I first saw this guy years ago I assumed he was an idiot. Now i know he is fully aware of EXACTLY what will happen.
"Nothing should happen" - and nothing happens.
So here we go again: "Nothing should happen", now change a bit in what we are doing - and still nothing happens.
So here we go a third time: "Nothing should happen", now we make sure something happens - and that's what he shows us 😂 😂😂
A true nerd is someone who travels to a foreign country to check out their power outlets.
A true iranian can travel to another country only to see if their roades are good or bad...
@@dailyhamstercombat 😂
@@dailyhamstercombat As far as I know Iran has better roads than its neighbours, not UAE though, but the rest are certainly worse.
Hey that's how I got my husband to take me to mexico dont knock the nerds but then we worried about being burned to death u dont want to see how they treat electric safety there is non
Jennifer Scott what
The boy in the band part didn’t age so well
Years ago in the uk wen electric was replacing gas lights and candles and oil lamps. The early electrical appliances wer run from a light socket instead of the then non existing 3 pin plug..this caused over loading on the earliest household electrical wiring causing fires and deaths by electrocution
*goes to London*
"... first thing on my bucket list..."
- Annihilates Outlet -
Maximilian Moeck yeah lol
i just bought a bluetooth keyboard and i'm typing this comment with it. it's pretty cool bro thx for coming to my ted talk allah
Hotel emplyee: *Having a chill day at work*
ElectroBOOM: *Enters lobby*
Hotel emplyee: *Starts sweating*
Lmao
ElectroBOOM : ** books room and blows a breaker **
Hotel employee : shet i knew it
2:44
Takes out power plug :sweating intensifies
'Pop' - RUN AWAY. Testing electrical safety features and fight or flight response simultaneously. Impressive.
yes we take power safety seriously in the uk
ElectroBOOM: *Enters house*
House: *Chuckle* I’m in danger.
Electricity: *exists*
ElectroBOOM: “I’ll take you entire stock!”
Nice meme
FantasticFoxx I’ll take your entire *shock*
TheIvangallo , Watt?
@@TheIvangallo cha cha real smooooth
Everyone else: It's a very nice hotel
Some random electric guy: WHERRREE DZEEEE BREAKERRR BOXXX!?!?!!!
LOL
Lmao
bwahahahahahah
Electrician instinct
You failed to mention that British plugs have another safety feature fitted where a gate is fitted where the wire goes into the plug that stops the wire being pulled out of the plug should it come under stress. This is either achieved via a piece of plastic that goes across the top of the wire as it enters the plug and is screwed down by 2 screws, 1 each side of the wire, or 2 pieces of plastic 1 placed each side of where the wire entrances the plug in a v shape that traps the wire being pulled out if under tension.
An RCD constantly monitors the current flowing through the live and neutral wires. If there is a difference between the two (known as leakage current), it means there is a problem somewhere in the circuit. The RCD will then switch off the power.
This guy is going to shut down a hole city trying to charge an iPad in 10 seconds
*Photonicinduction has joined the server.*
*Whole
@@TheSurvivalDude723 Ok
*Whole
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I wonder how his cousin reacted to him shocking himself and popping breakers in their home ?
How about shorting live wires above a carpet
If his cousin is smart. He would have kicked back across the room with a bag of popcorn.
1:24 this ancient one is actually not ancient but a different type of outlet that is designed to link a wall light switch to a standard lamp. Not used much anymore in practice but still current
BS546, still current in hotels for their table and bedside lamps. Maybe they figure that people are less likely to steal them. Also, theatre lighting systems most often use BS546 for their stage lighting as, being without a fuse, it makes fault finding easier. Some people use them in household lighting, such as under cupboard lights. The plugs are smaller, and all perfectly legal if on a spur or CU circuit with the appropriate breaker/fuse.
The double breaker box will usually be upstairs and downstairs so that you can isolate different floors. Like if you want to fix the wiring in a bedroom upstairs without turning off the TV downstairs.