why are most electrical plugs oddly shaped?

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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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Because a lot of them are actually transformers rather than plugs. And, yes, they can be designed so the transformer isn’t right on the plug, but the bottom line is that many companies just don’t bother doing that.

With that said, you can get like ten very short extension cables just for this purpose for pretty cheap. So a solution does exist.

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