Timeline for Does AC Power have Polarity?
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| Nov 12, 2023 at 5:36 | comment | added | user148298 | It's really hard to grasp the concept of polarity on AC because there's one pole--the one that shocks the crap out of you. It doesn't need the other wire like DC does. | |
| Jan 21, 2015 at 21:22 | comment | added | kinokijuf | @ntoskrnl Here in Poland “symmetric” dual outlets are common where one socket has polarity reversed from the other! | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 18:41 | comment | added | ntoskrnl | @kasperd Obligatory xkcd: xkcd.com/927 | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 18:24 | comment | added | kasperd | @ntoskrnl As the saying goes. Standards are great let's have some more of them. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 15:12 | comment | added | ntoskrnl | @kasperd The polarization of the French type "polarized" plug is not standardized; for example the polarization is reverse in the Czech Republic compared to France. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 0:10 | comment | added | kasperd | @ntoskrnl Actually all the Schuko plugs I have ever come across were polarized because they were designed to fit in both the Schuko outlets as well as French outlets. But that doesn't help when it is used in a Schuko outlet which is not polarized. | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 22:13 | comment | added | ntoskrnl | Among others, the Schuko wall plug (used in most of Europe) is not polarized, so any device intended for those markets will have to assume that both wires are "hot". More: electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/96033/… | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 13:11 | vote | accept | vicatcu | ||
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| Nov 4, 2014 at 6:54 | history | answered | paul | CC BY-SA 3.0 |