01-06-2012, 01:54 PM
Please be gentle with me here - I'm not gainsaying, just trying to work things out in my own bumbling way.
True, there are male earth sockets but aren't those sockets designed to also accept a version of the plugs that doesn't have an earth? The slim plugs that just slip under (or over) the earth pin.
Portable devices don't typically have an earth connected so even when the plug has one it isn't actually connected to anything. In many cases the earth pin on British plugs is a plastic dummy just there to open the shutter. That being so, the lack of a male earth on the socket makes no difference. The female earth plug would still plug into the socket and there was never any real earth connection anyway.
True, there are male earth sockets but aren't those sockets designed to also accept a version of the plugs that doesn't have an earth? The slim plugs that just slip under (or over) the earth pin.
Portable devices don't typically have an earth connected so even when the plug has one it isn't actually connected to anything. In many cases the earth pin on British plugs is a plastic dummy just there to open the shutter. That being so, the lack of a male earth on the socket makes no difference. The female earth plug would still plug into the socket and there was never any real earth connection anyway.
