{"id":22413,"date":"2014-08-22T01:44:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=22413"},"modified":"2019-07-25T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:31:43","slug":"international-electrotechnical-commission-world-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/22\/international-electrotechnical-commission-world-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"International Electrotechnical Commission : World Plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International Electrotechnical Commission<\/a> has a very handy (especially before travelling to a foreign country) list of different plugs<\/a>\u00a0(a total of 14 at the time of this writing), mapped to countries of the world. \u00a0So if you don’t have one of these:<\/p>\n

\"adaptor\"<\/a><\/p>\n

make sure you check the list of adapters & converters worth buying before you fly out. \u00a0And while on the topic of this great variety, IEC also explains why there are so many<\/a> and if this annoyance will ever be sold:<\/p>\n

The IEC issued its International Standard for a universal plug in the 1970s; so far it has been adopted by Brazil and South Africa. It is unlikely that there will be a run on the standard in the near future. Literally hundreds of millions of plugs and sockets have been installed and who would convince a country to invest now in changing its whole infrastructure?<\/p>\n

Most likely the future will lie with solutions such as the USB plug or possibly a multi-plug that can accommodate many different plugs, or even new technologies such as LVDC (low voltage direct current) or wireless charging mechanisms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

International Electrotechnical Commission has a very handy (especially before travelling to a foreign country) list of different plugs\u00a0(a total of 14 at the time of this writing), mapped to countries of the world. \u00a0So if you don’t have one of these: make sure you check the list of adapters & converters worth buying before you … Continue reading International Electrotechnical Commission : World Plugs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1447,799,1216,334],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-22413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-energy","tag-gadgets","tag-standards","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t