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That’s too dangerous man… put some duct tape on the screw so it won’t conduct the keys
Anyone know how the wiring is on those ones? Maybe the person knows that hole to be the ground connection.
Unlike in the US, there’s no rule on where the hot and the cold should be on a plug in France (and maybe also some other countries in Europe).
So the hot hole can very well be on the left or on the right.
This plug has no ground pin, but if that screw is in the Cold hole, then there’s no risk.
There still is, if the neutral wire breaks somewhere else it will get to 240V potential respective to earth
If the socket is defunct completely, thats another story
What you are talking about is a short to ground or to the neutral conductor. Depending on what is shorted you’ll have either 110V or 220V (in the US) on your neutral then. This causes a shock hazard because your ground and, hence, your water pipes become energized. It also backfeeds devices through the ground or neutral conductors and can cause them to fail and catch fire.
If you have a break in the neutral, that is called an open neutral. Then you have somewhere between 110V and 220V on your line conductors. The voltage will be varying. You will notice lights flickering and problems with various devices which could over-load and cause a fire.
I mean an open neutral. The loads can bring the detached neutra; close to live potential, which is max 120V in the US and max 240V in Europe
There cannot be potential above single phase voltage on the neutral, so you cant get 240V in the US or 415V in Europe on the neutral, but you can get heck of shock from much less
Its a unpolarized and ungrounded plug. Hot and neutral connectors may be used interchangeability.
Doesn’t look like a French socket it looks like a Russian Type C.
Either the screw isn’t all the way in the outlet or the outlet is disconnected.
They CAN be used interchangeably. A good electrician won’t though. In old houses, like mine, the outlets I haven’t replaced yet have both line and neutral openings the same size so you can’t tell them apart visually. Modern receptacles have a larger slot for the neutral. A qualified electrician will stick to this convention for safety.
In old house’s wirings (when the workers did their job correctly) it’s always on the right so it appears to be just fine.
That’s an ungrounded euro socket. Just hot and neutral.
Einer guter electrisches Key Halter.
It seems to be a 24V AC socket, so it’s rather harmless.
Why you say 24V? Its a normal 220V soviet time socket
And wall design soviet too 
And soviet people knew, how to check power wire or not – without tools and without danger
In Sovjet Russia the key holder shocks you!
(runs to hide.out)
Sorry, I meant DC. So grounding one pole does nothing.
It’s an old ungrounded 220V euro outlet.
This is a repeat post
Oh, that’s shocking.
Damn lazy-arsed people! Electric can opener, electric carving knives, electric razors, now an electric key holder!
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in case there’s a wooden floor under you, you won’t be hurt even it’s live wire with 220V AC, let alone “zero” wire with 0-~40V AC. But I do believe this outlet is defunct. There are not that many outlets in an average soviet-built flat to spare for such things.
Any non-idiot would use some plastic thingy to grab it. Really, 230VAC is not that much.
Plus, you get plastic thingies for free in your coffee…
Kthxbai.
Ok. no problem to use electric tester screwdriver to find ground. The terminals don’t mix up once they ‘re installed. No risk ….. ex-ussr . hi from belarus .
tbh this could make a really good anti burglar device (round here they also take any keys they can find with the hoped of a later visit, or to steal cars outside or stuf from outbuildings.. making them lean over a grounded metal countertop to grab keys from a live socket could be a good way to deal with them..
If use a foreign socket, like this, you’ll really confuse burglars, until it’s too late!
Due to the repeated theft of the office keys, we have enacted new safety procedures! The office keys will be hung on an electrified key ring! The key to the fuse box is required to safely retrieve these keys. Fuse number 4 must be turned off in order to retrieve the keys. Violators will be fried.
where ever this person lives, he is a true dumbass
That’ll teach his wife from leaving in the middle of the night…