Ich liebe und hasse Schweizer Steckdosen
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Von Icy-Employee
Ich liebe und hasse Schweizer Steckdosen
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Von Icy-Employee
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If I plug this in, it will cover all remaining outlets… How do you deal with this, any tips?
you get an extension cord
For cases like these (and also „wall wart“ power supplies) I have some short extension cables lying around.
For example: https://www.brack.ch/furber-power-verlaengerungskabel-t13-t12-0-2-m-weiss-1253323
There’s a patented one where one socket is flipped.
I mean, don’t use this type of multi-socket here. These are good on a single socket, the ones that are often found higher on the wall under a switch.
I agree that these weird triple sockets aren’t wonderful. But just get a standard multi-socket that has a cord and put it on the ground or wherever you would like to use it. Also if you have a lot of devices that don’t work on swiss sockets, it’s nice to use a single compatible multi-socket instead of many adaptators
It’s amazing how solvable a solution these plugs are, yet how resistant everything seems to be to actually solving it lol.
This floral arrangement is terrible, providing no benefit other than being marginally thinner.
The extension cords too, have the sockets aligned like, vertically .. meaning that anything with a power pack overlaps other sockets.
If they were simply rotated 90 degrees, this wouldn’t happen.
Or at the very least, have an option for the ground pin to be put in in either direction. There’s no reason to mandate the ground pin be in one location only.
Not only did someone make the active design choice for a less usable socket, people are choosing to keep doing it as it becomes progressively more and more inconvenient.
Who ever decided that the 3 holes shouldn’t be in a straight line deserves a crisp kick in the nuts. So many issues could have been avoided by just doing that.
Two methods:
– Buy a [320° multisocket](https://www.pearl.ch/de/steckdosenleiste-4-fach-abzweigstecker-drehbar-4x-typ-13-230-v.html?refID=969)
– Buy a multisocket with [cord extension](https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/steffen-power-easy-steckerleiste-6-x-typ-13-150-m-steckdosenleiste-6412362)
Don’t shame our outlets, Gopfridschtutz!
I mean worst case is your outlet is as efficient as a Shuko outlet.
Best case is 3 times more efficient
https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/steffen-power-easy-connector-strip-6-x-type-13-150-m-socket-strips-6412362
Same, I really don’t get why they are not rotated 180°…
But as others pointed out there are solutions, I have these:
– https://www.brack.ch/steffen-steckdosenleiste-11x-t13-281708
– https://www.brack.ch/steffen-mehrfachstecker-manta-3x-t13-drehbar-335-3-993945
– https://www.brack.ch/max-hauri-mehrfachstecker-4-137560
sometimes I had to remove the middle thing by pulling it out with the pliers, just too annoying
Just use a multi-socket power strip with a short lead. Or a multi-plug which rotates (available at every Jumbo or the likes).
Swiss tripple outlets are fantastic for many use cases. The multi-plug you have there simply isn’t made for using it with a tripple outlet.
The one thing I hate about those outlets is that pretty much all the available [Type J to Type F (Schuko) adapters](https://www.skross.com/en/products/europe-to-switzerland) unnecessarily cover up the remaining two sockets by protruding inward instead of outward. Although you could argue that this is a design flaw in the adapters.