Why are so many electrical plugs designed in such a way that they cover adjacent sockets?
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Plug in power bricks are built that size for two reasons. One is that they often need the space for the circuitry inside.
Another is that they all produce some heat. Many people have places where multiple of these power bricks are needed, and they are tempted to connect them to the same power board. If they all packed together, all of them as wide as they can be, with no space between them – they would overheat, maybe enough to cause a fire.
So building them so that they take up more than one socket forces some space between them, so they can cool properly.
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