Am 29.06.07 18.41 schrieb Dave Plowman (News):
In article ,
Gary Tait wrote:
There is no such thing as an *EU* plug.

Technically likely not. But there is a two round pin plug that will fit
into most of Europe's sockets, and the CEE7/7 (AKA Shucko) which will
fit into a subset of those.

There is a plug which will 'fit' but isn't up to the maximum rating of
those outlets. So really of little use.

Just the opposite.
The Euro plug is not designed that you can travel across Europe with your
3680W water boiler and plug it in everywhere, but for all those = 575W
gadgets, people like to have with them, while they are travelling, but also
for devices being fully insolated, hence mot requiring the protective ground
like VCR, TV, RCR, audio amplifiers, satellite receivers, battery chargers,
etc, etc.

The Schuko outlet is rated for 230V AC to up to 20A, even though in most cases
16A breakers are used since some 3 decades.

This system is also common in Austria, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia and
Greece. I'm not sure about the Cech and Slovak Repuplic.