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Re:USB Killer by talideon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @08:49AM (#9177411)
They needn't have been so bad: one small change--tilting the pins at an angle--and they could've been mechanically sound like Aussie ones.
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Re:USB Killer by theandrewbailey on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @09:54AM (#9177694)
NEMA 5-20 is exactly that. It's somewhat less common, due to the fact that it implies a 20 amp supply. Most plugs and sockets use the 15 amp version.
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Re:USB Killer by talideon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @10:08AM (#9177758)
Aussie plugs are more like NEMA 11 plugs: the prongs are angled to form two sides of a triangle.
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Re:USB Killer by theandrewbailey on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @10:55AM (#9178006)
You mean NEMA 10?[0] All I can dig up for NEMA 11 are motors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#NEMA_10

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Re:USB Killer by talideon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @01:30PM (#9179096)
You are indeed correct.
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Re:USB Killer by fnordfnordfnord on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @09:52AM (#9177681)
I'm not sure the order these were conceived, but it may be that there was already a plug with a similar configuration.

http://www.jmjwebsitedesign.com/cdpro/wp-content/uploads/201...

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Re:USB Killer by talideon on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @10:10AM (#9177767)
That's some panoply of configurations! It's a pity the most common configuration is the worst of them.
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