In a nutshell, plugs and sockets differ from region to region and even country to country because, at the time they were being developed, no one really saw any reason to make them all the same. First, ...

When we recently covered the topic of high voltage safety with respect to mains powered equipment, we attracted a huge number of your comments but left out a key piece of the puzzle. We take our mains ...

South Africa is amid a gradual transition to a new electrical plug standard as the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) works to establish a compact, hexagonal design as the primary socket type in ...