Museum of Plugs and Sockets

Re:Museum of Plugs and Sockets by rxt_ian on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:12AM (#29340669)

The live prongs are insulated to such a length you should not be able to touch any conductive part before the plug is no longer making electrical contact with the socket.

It's likely you got a small zap from a filtering capacitor inside the device that had not yet discharged.

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Re:Museum of Plugs and Sockets by ponyous on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:20AM (#29340710)

I am not an expert and the shock didn't feel as bad as I expected so you are probably right.

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Re:Museum of Plugs and Sockets by iso1631 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:16PM (#29343072)

If it was a genuine plug, but there are non-genuine plugs around which aren't insulated (as well as ones with an insulated Earth!). If the plug was older than 1984 it could even have been genuine, as insulation wasn't required until then.

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