Why are so many electrical plugs designed in such a way that they cover adjacent sockets?
In: Engineering
It’s a common problem when using devices that run off a low voltage direct current, as your house is wired to supply alternating current at a higher voltage.
That 115/230 volt alternating current has to be converted to a lower voltage and rectified into direct current. The electronics that do this take up a bit of space.
That space can be built into the device (making it larger and outputting more heat), somewhere along the middle of the cable (typically expensive and annoying to deal with sometimes), or at the wall plug end (cheap and very practical, but can block adjacent slots).
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