Behind my TV I have 16 open outlets on my UPS, but I can only access 8 of them because half of the bulbous plugs take up two plugs each.
So between my router, modem, switch, access point, Roku, TV, speakers, and Nintendo, I am running out of power outlets, not because there aren’t enough outlets, but because the plugs take up more than one outlet each.
Why can’t all plugs be designed to only take up one plug?
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This method is usually cheaper than building the power converter into the device, and the device can be sleek/cool/smaller when you get the wall-wort style plug.
Reason its cheaper: you can engineer around a specific power rating, but that power rating can change without changing too much else… Then, you can purchase a million of these plugs for cheap from shenzhen.
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